Author: Lanny DiBartolomeo
Date: 22:48:57 02/04/00
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On February 03, 2000 at 23:58:15, James Robertson wrote: >> Please get a life! I merely stated a opinion regarding Karpov's playing skills >>against a specific opponent. This is neither personal, or an attack. Simply a >>stated belief. I have a right to believe someone is a bad player, without being >>accused of attacking them right? > > >This is the wrong way to define personal attack. If you said "x plays like a >deranged muttonhead" would you consider that a personal attack? Or would you >not, because it is just a statement of your opinion? It is no more and no less >personal than your statement about Karpov. > >The content of your post is not, IMO, a personal attack. The title _is_ and here >I why: In both your title and your post you state your opinion. But in your >title you also _unnecessarily_ insult Karpov, and that is the personal attack. > >James Saying Karpov Sucks is a personal attack saying he sucks at playing computers is not a personal attack take the ratings of comps and his average rating against them and now take his ratings against humans and woola yes he does stink at playing computers (for now ) I didnt use Sucks because it is not part of my every day vocabulary, if i said he does not play well against computers is this also a personal attack ? if it is then you can nab a whole lot of people on this petty issue, so one says "not to good" another says "stinks" and another "sucks" all depends on where you grow up and how you express yourself, after all we all come from a different up bringing.
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