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| No, I don't think so, Molly. This is not a war and this is not a military tribunal either. So there shouldn't have been any judgelike people who had authorities to decide who won or who lost. |
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| Sun Jun 01, 2008 15:52 pm complicate vs. complicated |
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| Haihao wrote: | | No, I don't think so, Molly. This is not a war and this is not a military tribunal either. So there shouldn't have been any judgelike people who had authorities to decide who won or who lost. |
But clearly one person is making more sense than the other, and one person's take on the issue is more consonant with expert opinion and native-speaker intuition. So clearly someone is right and someone is wrong in this case.
Molly is a gloating winner but a sore loser. At least this time Molly didn't question MrP's sanity, which is one of Molly's usual strategies when he's wrong. |
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| Sun Jun 01, 2008 16:29 pm complicate vs. complicated |
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| Quote: | | But clearly one person is making more sense than the other, |
To whom?
| Quote: | | and one person's take on the issue is more consonant with expert opinion and native-speaker intuition |
LOL! You didn't even know the adjective existed. What kind of expert opinion and native-speaker intution can you bring to this?
| Quote: | | Molly is a gloating winner but a sore loser |
Another example of Jamie's Disneyland view of things. Dualism reigns in Jamie's house.
| Quote: | | Hey, look at this from one of your pals |
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| Quote: | | But it's also interesting to see how those sociopaths react. I'm pretty sure that one of them won't be able to resist proving my little theory. |
And doesn't this sound like psychobabble to you?
| Quote: | | Sublime self-unawareness. |
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| Sun Jun 01, 2008 18:32 pm complicate vs. complicated |
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Hello Haihao,
| Haihao wrote: | | No, I don't think so, Molly. This is not a war and this is not a military tribunal either. So there shouldn't have been any judgelike people who had authorities to decide who won or who lost. |
In contexts such as this, "lost" would imply "lost the argument", not "lost the war". The former is a common phrase, and does not involve any implication of tribunals, etc.
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| Sun Jun 01, 2008 21:32 pm complicate vs. complicated |
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| Even hearing "Ha,ha, you've lost the argument" makes me think of the schoolyard. |
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| Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:32 am complicate vs. complicated |
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| Quote: | | Losing the argument or not is a self evident thing, isn't it? But crying out 'we win, you suck' without fighting to the finish is like something that happens in the schoolyard where the baby loser is almost at the end of his/her rope. |
Exactly. |
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| Mon Jun 02, 2008 16:34 pm complicate vs. complicated |
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| Haihao wrote: | | Losing the argument or not is a self evident thing, isn't it? |
Truer words were never spoken. 
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| Mon Jun 02, 2008 23:37 pm complicate vs. complicated |
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Here's an interesting one:
"We believe that a complicate pricing mechanism may not only increase the computational network overheads but may also suffer from the complexities of its implementation."
From: Converged Networking: Data and Real-Time Communications Over Ip. By Chris McDonald
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| Tue Jun 03, 2008 0:17 am complicate vs. complicated |
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| Molly wrote: | Here's an interesting one:
"We believe that a complicate pricing mechanism may not only increase the computational network overheads but may also suffer from the complexities of its implementation."
From: Converged Networking: Data and Real-Time Communications Over Ip. By Chris McDonald
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No; there's an uninteresting typo for "complicated", in a chapter called A Simple Pricing Scheme.
You'll find e.g. "it's" for "its" a little further on.
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| Tue Jun 03, 2008 0:33 am complicate vs. complicated |
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| Quote: | | No; there's an uninteresting typo for "complicated", in a chapter called A Simple Pricing Scheme. |
Thing is, Mr P, you have no proof that it is a typo, just as I have no proof it isn't. So... |
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| Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:17 am complicate vs. complicated |
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| Haihao wrote: | Thank you, Nina.  I' like to introduce what you said to dear MrP. He can't seem to get the Pooh story straight unless some word processor breaks up every word for him.
MrP, I still respect your early Italian English analysis post but don't get me wrong, so far the respect is limited to that only.
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I agree with you wholeheartedly, Haihao: losing the argument or not is a self-evident thing.
Which was the "Italian English analysis" post, if you don't mind my asking? I don't remember it.
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| Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:26 am complicate vs. complicated |
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| You seem to have a good memory! But you need a good investigation measure as well. To quote Molly's, you better find out the proof by yourself and not make others do it for you. Good luck! |
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