From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-02 16:52:56 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, and other irrelevant topics Date: 3 Feb 2001 00:17:29 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <95fimp$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <94p9fl$a1g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94qbb4$bs1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94rkj1$d4r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <87k87i2ha7.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <94vnup$kia$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <952hmb$niq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <95315u$3ca$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <954e7d$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> <95fbj6$nen$11@usenet.rational.com> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e5089.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4898 Date: 2001-02-03T00:17:29+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:11:23 -0800, Mark Lundquist wrote: >That seems a bit reactionary :-) Robert's point seemed pretty innocent -- >it was just that one ought to have some authentic knowledge if they're going >to have opinions about something. But this was in a discussion of Shakespeare, where someone said that he didn't like Shakespeare, for such and such a reason, and Robert Dewar said he hadn't studied it enough. The original author had some authentic knowledge - the question was how much was needed. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org