In Reply to: Re: Do you understand enough English? posted by Farmer on October 06, 2006 at 03:07:08:
I maintain you have trouble with English because it's not your first language. Either that or you are operating on blind loyalty.
In OT2's complex sentences and phrases, conditionals get affected by double-conditionals, and double-negatives. You have to look at the preponderance of the message which is clear, even when disclaimers are slipped in. Otherwise you could read Mo letters and say Berg never predicted the destruction of America with Kohutek, never promoted child sex, and so on. Check those Mo letters for yourself.
You want to talk logic? Let's do it.
Governing parental conditional "By the way; are YOU a Christian?"
Sub-boolean condition 1: "If so" then result 1: = "we have a problem"
Sub-boolean condition 2: "If not" then result 2: = "we obviously won't"
This message that result 2 is what applies is through the preponderance of the rest of what he wrote:
OT2 didn't welcome my (or anyone else's) correction: "I do not actually value your opinion"
"What gives you the 'right'" to correct me "if you are not" a Christian "yourself?"
I challenge you to find an emphasis on the opposite conditional. OT2 does not entertain the possibility I am a Christian. The message is my opinion and value are nothing for him because I am not one.
I do consider myself a Christian, but I wouldn't think to try to win anyone with OT2's persuausive charms. I also agree that isn't relevant just because I dared say something to OT2.
Is your loyalty making you blind?
If you don't see it when it's right under your nose, I give up.