Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 16:02:30 07/03/00
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On July 03, 2000 at 18:32:02, Chris Whittington wrote: >On July 03, 2000 at 18:15:01, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On July 03, 2000 at 17:57:43, Chris Whittington wrote: >> >>>Imagining all great men are English is a data failure. Or it could just be good >>>for you (if you're English, your English). >>> >>>Mixing "your" and "you're" is a processing failure. >>> >>>Fortunately, flakey memory is less important than flakey process. You can cure >>>one with an encylopedia. You need an education to cure the other. >>> >>>Touche. Or not. We are all flawed humans. Youd [sic] be better getting me on its >>>and it's - I'm very flakey on those. Or you could try ridiculous and rediculous >>>- good and famous on this ng (it was a good 'fake-alike' detector before the >>>perpetrator realised). Seperate and separate - also. >>> >>> >>>Chris Whittington >> >>I never confuse "you're" with "your" or "it's" with "its". It happened because I >>changed my mind about the sentence in question and typed too fast, which is an >>internet hazard I believe. But if you're convinced that your estimation of my >>apparent mistake is correct, don't change it on my behalf. Good excuses are, as >>they say, easy to come by. >> >>Best wishes... >>Mogens > >Fine, no problem. > >I don't have a clue who said the phrase in question. Actually I have my doubts >that it was Voltaire. There's no reference to it in "Coconuts" that I can >remember. But probably Gomboc is right - no reason why he would invent it. > Voltaire it was - just found the quote: To Helvetius: "I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." It's easy to defend the right to speak of those you agree with. Very difficult to want to do so for those with whom you profoundly disagree. But that is they key. With apologies for the nationalistic hijack. Chris Whittington
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