Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!nzpost2.xs4all.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: What I learned today From: "Evertjan." References: <3079828.iIbC2pHGDl@PointedEars.de> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:59:45 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/2009.05.01 Lines: 38 NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.174.145.5 X-Trace: 1483523977 dreader35.news.xs4all.nl 1693 ehannivo/77.174.145.5:52772 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:32085 Scott Sauyet wrote on 04 Jan 2017 in comp.lang.javascript: >> Gene [sorry Gene about the third person] may decide he does not want to >> learn from Thomas for any reason he wants, but if he professes that that >> reason influences the quality of the content of Thomases words, I >> object. > > So if someone were to post their comments, switching every sentence > between Swahili, Hopi, and Aramaic, but their technical content was > correct, do you think I would have a basis for making *my own decision* > on whether the post was not useful to me? (I speak none of those > languages, BTW.) If it was written full of vulgarities or other forms of > offensive speech that I find myself unwilling to read, should I not be > able to claim that it is useless to me? If you think a discussion is not usefull FOR YOU, you are free, imho, to say so and stop being part of such discussion. But that has no inkling on the value of the arguments, only of the discussion. If you were momentarily blind or your computerscreen fails, and no one [and no Cortana] could read the discusion to you, would that change the value of an argument? I submit you are just blind to Swahili, Hopi, and Aramaic. Reading the Talmud, which is mainly in Arameic, which is for 90% argumenting and counterargumenting, is a joy and very informative about discussion. The arguments in the Talmud sometimes read as a computer programme, with if- then-else constructs or tripolar evaluation. -- Evertjan. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)