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Re: To K-12 teachers here: Another enjoyable post from Dan Meyer
Posted:
May 14, 2014 8:21 AM
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You need to actually send it to him. And thanks for clarifying your position on where you stand with regards to GS?s harassment.
Bob Hansen
On May 14, 2014, at 1:33 AM, Louis Talman <talmanl@gmail.com> wrote:
> You will appreciate the attachment I sent to Hansen, so here's your very own copy. I hope the size doesn't overwhelm your connection.
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> On Tue, 13 May 2014 18:43:38 -0600, GS Chandy <chandy.sag@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Robert Hansen (RH) posted May 14, 2014 2:29 AM (http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=9461964):
>>>
>>> On May 13, 2014, at 2:15 PM, GS Chandy
>>> <chandy.sag@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> > (GSC): This is emphatically not true. You had not
>>> > 'caught
>>> >it', as you are claiming. It was NOT something to be
>>> >'blamed on the spell checker'. No existing spell
>>> >checker would have caught this particular error, in
>>> >any case.
>>>
>>> It is absolutely true, I even started to send a
>>> second post and got caught up with work. Don?t ever
>>> call me a liar again.
>>>
>>> Bob Hansen
>>>
>> You may later have started to send a second post (or a third, or a fourth...) I grant that.
>>
>> However, I repeat:
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>> (It) is emphatically not true that you had 'caught it', (in the way that you are claiming). You had not 'caught it'. It was NOT something to be 'blamed on the spell checker' (as you are now doing). No existing spell checker would have caught this particular error, in any case.
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>> Maybe such specious and evasive reasoning on your part - too often used by you in too many of your arguments - is the reason why some (/many) people find you to be 'a funny guy'.
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>> As to whether you are a liar, let the evidence speak for itself.
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>> There is NO spell checker in the world that would have discovered that you meant "pique my curiosity" when you wrote to Richard Strausz to the effect that "You are really starting to peak my curiosity as to how you are able to do this" - but you want to put the blame on the spell checker!!! (Before computers and spell checkers and stuff like that, I believe some people used to claim things like: "The cat did it").
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>> Though times and tools have changed hugely, the great US writer Mark Twain had said/written something most appropriate in this kind of context: "The best reason for telling the truth is that you don't have to remember ANYTHING!" (words to that effect).
>>
>> GSC
>> ("Still Shoveling! Not PUSHING!! Not GOADING!!! - and not "poking with a stick", either)
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> --
> --Louis A. Talman
> Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
> Metropolitan State University of Denver
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