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Jack777
May 19th 2005, 06:52 PM
For those who do not know,

ad hominem

Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason



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Arnold
May 19th 2005, 06:54 PM
You're full of it - and no nothing of which you speak...
KyleX0rz
May 19th 2005, 07:02 PM
i learned that in my english class monday
Jack777
May 19th 2005, 07:22 PM
What is Dae su Oh?
rmwilliamsjr
May 20th 2005, 05:28 AM
You're full of it - and no nothing of which you speak...

not "no nothing" but rather
"know nothing"


as in:

Know-Nothing Movement, a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s. It was organized to oppose the great wave of immigrants who entered the United States after 1846. Know-Nothings claimed that the immigrantshttp://ap.grolier.com/images/entities/mdash.gifwho were principally Irish and Roman Catholichttp://ap.grolier.com/images/entities/mdash.gifthreatened to destroy the American experiment. The Roman Catholic church, they charged, was subservient to a foreign prince (the pope), it was growing in power, and it potentially could exert political control over a large group of people. Such nativist sentiments had long existed among many Americans, but they had never before been expressed in such powerful form.

from: http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0233110-00&templatename=/article/article.html

this homonymal failure is rather common on the net, and doesn't seem to reflect on the intelligence of the poster, s/he is simply typing what is being heard in their heads.


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Jack777
May 20th 2005, 11:55 AM
I new that.
Arnold
May 20th 2005, 12:07 PM
not "no nothing" but rather
"know nothing"



I knew I could draw out a spelling Nazi... :wink:
KyleX0rz
May 20th 2005, 12:08 PM
What is Dae su Oh?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0364569/

daesu is the guy in my avater hes from a movie
Jack777
May 20th 2005, 12:12 PM
Arnold,

"spelling Nazi," that is great.... Can I quote you without attribution?

KyleX0rz, thanks.
Arnold
May 20th 2005, 12:18 PM
Arnold,

"spelling Nazi," that is great.... Can I quote you without attribution?



It's not original to me - so go ahead. I think it is a web colloquialism.
Jack777
May 20th 2005, 12:27 PM
Thanx