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Re: I just belatedly realized why adults can't communicate with Jolly Roger & nospam & Alan Baker & Snit - because they're too far to the left on the Dunning-Kruger scale

From "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android, comp.mobile.ipad, alt.comp.freeware, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: I just belatedly realized why adults can't communicate with Jolly Roger & nospam & Alan Baker & Snit - because they're too far to the left on the Dunning-Kruger scale
Date 2019-01-17 01:21 -0600
Organization Inner-Dementia-Null Consortium Of Wizardly Dudes
Message-ID <20190117012107.1f46b2e6@WizardsTower> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <VfL%D.286668$_U4.151828@fx01.iad> <ga9g24Fk9igU2@mid.individual.net> <q1o3sp$plt$1@news.mixmin.net> <q1p1bl$kb0$1@gonzo.alcatraz> <q1p94e$5n9$3@dont-email.me>

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On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:59:27 -0000 (UTC)
William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:

> On 2019-01-17, Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote:
> > On 2019-01-16, arlen holder <arlen@arlen.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> We're going to have far shorter discussions, moving forward.  
> >
> > If the goal is shorer discussions you're wasting words. 
> > Other then length what does "moving forward" add to the sentence?  
> 
> It gives the lie to the rest of the sentence.
> 
It is also nonsensical if we are to believe that, "moving forward,"
refers to doing so in time since there currently is no other way to
move in that particular partial medium.   

Cybe R. Wizard
-- 
We are all traveling forward in time at the rate of one second per
second.

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Re: I just belatedly realized why adults can't communicate with Jolly Roger & nospam & Alan Baker & Snit - because they're too far to the left on the Dunning-Kruger scale William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-01-17 06:59 +0000
  Re: I just belatedly realized why adults can't communicate with Jolly Roger & nospam & Alan Baker & Snit - because they're too far to the left on the Dunning-Kruger scale "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-01-17 01:21 -0600
    Re: I just belatedly realized why adults can't communicate with Jolly Roger & nospam & Alan Baker & Snit - because they're too far to the left on the Dunning-Kruger scale Diesel <me@privacy.net> - 2019-01-17 23:14 +0000
      Re: I just belatedly realized why adults can't communicate with Jolly Roger & nospam & Alan Baker & Snit - because they're too far to the left on the Dunning-Kruger scale arlen holder <arlen@arlen.com> - 2019-01-18 05:24 +0000

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