[MD] re, fellow european-Bodvar

[Horse]

What's plain English for you Platt is probably confusing and overly 
intellectual for many - perhaps most. Have you never heard of a 
dictionary - paper or online? Or is it too much to ask that people 
involved in a forum for the discussion of philosophy make an effort to 
understand the language of that area of knowledge? Just about every word 
in the vast majority of posts on this forum are plain ordinary English 
and if members can't be bothered to look up the occasional word that is 
specific to philosophy, but instead choose to run down those with a more 
extensive vocabulary than their own then that's not only ignorant but 
downright pathetic. Alternatively, don't read the sodding posts if the 
conversation or the words in the conversation are too long and 
complicated - just don't complain because some people are too damn lazy 
to make the effort to understand the conversations that they choose to 
read  - and if you can't stand the heat then get the hell out of the 
kitchen.
As I said before, there's room for many styles and points of view but 
trying to drag down to some base level those with the ability and 
gumption to do better is a clear sign of social patterns trying to 
subordinate intellectual patterns - and that's immoral according to the MoQ.
And if you think that's arrogant then fine - I couldn't care less.

On 16/04/2010 01:28, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:
> Do you mean that those who disagree with your views or favor plain
> English are ignorant? I expect such arrogance from Arlo, but it's
> surprising coming from you.
>
> Regards,
> Platt
>
>
> On 15 Apr 2010 at 17:04, Horse wrote:
>
>    
>> There's room here for many styles and points of view and I think it's
>> detrimental to Pirsigs work to let certain comments go
>> unchallenged.Ignorance may be bliss but only for the ignorant.
>> It also seems to me that most of those that complain about this academic
>> insertion and the big words and technical stuff are also the ones that
>> distort the MoQ the most. Interesting correlation maybe!
>>
>> Cheers
>>      
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