Comments on: A Day for Collateral Damage http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:49:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Weston http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143129 Weston Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:52:08 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143129 Well, goodnight. For some reason this conversation became pleasant after all. Well, goodnight. For some reason this conversation became pleasant after all.

]]> By: Weston http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143127 Weston Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:50:11 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143127 Offhand, I suspect Pound was right. Offhand, I suspect Pound was right.

]]> By: Eugene Costa http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143125 Eugene Costa Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:46:35 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143125 What suppose you, after Pound, Dante meant by calling words "buttered" or "shaggy" or "pexa et hirsuta". Pound seemed to think it had something to do with the noises made. What suppose you, after Pound, Dante meant by calling words “buttered” or “shaggy” or “pexa et hirsuta”.

Pound seemed to think it had something to do with the noises made.

]]> By: Weston http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143121 Weston Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:38:00 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143121 I think that would be a leap. I think that would be a leap.

]]> By: Weston http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143117 Weston Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:32:58 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143117 It wasn't a conscious choice. But I like how the f-sounds play off the hard c-sounds in "clarificatory/question." It wasn’t a conscious choice. But I like how the f-sounds play off the hard c-sounds in “clarificatory/question.”

]]> By: Eugene Costa http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143113 Eugene Costa Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:29:33 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143113 Were nothing else available, one might even conclude something about the means of production from such a sentence perhaps. What do you think? Were nothing else available, one might even conclude something about the means of production from such a sentence perhaps.

What do you think?

]]> By: Eugene Costa http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143111 Eugene Costa Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:27:13 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143111 As, just as a hypothetical example, say--"The arrows in bin 6 are not yet full-fledged." As, just as a hypothetical example, say–”The arrows in bin 6 are not yet full-fledged.”

]]> By: Eugene Costa http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143110 Eugene Costa Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:25:42 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143110 "Full-fledged objection", the other hand, has a touch of "fine-feathered", don't you think? I have never heard it applied to arrows, though I suppose in the course of his or her work an arrowsmith might possibly use it as a measure of his progress on a particular arrow, or group of arrows. “Full-fledged objection”, the other hand, has a touch of “fine-feathered”, don’t you think?

I have never heard it applied to arrows, though I suppose in the course of his or her work an arrowsmith might possibly use it as a measure of his progress on a particular arrow, or group of arrows.

]]> By: Weston http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143105 Weston Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:16:38 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143105 Thank you. Thank you.

]]> By: Eugene Costa http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143103 Eugene Costa Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:15:30 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143103 "Merely" is a nice touch. “Merely” is a nice touch.

]]> By: Weston http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143098 Weston Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:12:42 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143098 Yes, yes, and yes. What don't you understand? What assumptions am I making? Surely not. Merely rude. Yes, yes, and yes. What don’t you understand?

What assumptions am I making?

Surely not. Merely rude.

]]> By: Eugene Costa http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-143094 Eugene Costa Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:09:14 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/12/a-day-for-collateral-damage/#comment-143094 Defensive? Cordial? Insult? At any rate, again you make assumptions. Bad form--surely not the same "Form" as in formal logic, correct? Defensive? Cordial? Insult?

At any rate, again you make assumptions.

Bad form–surely not the same “Form” as in formal logic, correct?

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