LEADEN INEPTITUDE

Sheesh, Larry, I don't mean to brag, but as far as understanding "the niceties of language," I'll stack my literary credentials up against Laurie's (or yours) any day. As the editor, co-author and/or translator of at least 15 books, and the author of
hundreds of articles published in Chess Life, Inside Chess, Kingpin,
Chess
Horizons, and ChessCafe.com I won't claim to be any Shakespeare or
Hemingway, but I will own to a reasonable command of English. People
pay me thousands of dollars to turn leaden ineptitude into, if not
gold, at least into grammatically correct, clear, understandable
English prose. -- Taylor Kingston

NMnot Taylor Kingston claims that people pay him thousands of
dollars to edit some kind of prose that starts out leaden, turns
molten after some intellectual heat is applied and ends up in a
spanking, superior form due to his efforts.

If NMnot's claim is true (people pay me tens of thousands to
write histories) then a semi-sucker is born ever minute.

By which I mean: our NMnot gets credit for correcting grammatical
errors, but I doubt that he gets much of the lead out. The leaden are
seldom materially changed by the sodden.

TO REV. WALKER

There is no necessary conflict between seeking truth and seeking
revenge. NMnot Kingston undoubtedly conditions his efforts on this
premise, whereas Greg
Kennedy just wants wholesome, good old-fashioned revenge for a
severely wounded amour propre.

I respect your neutrality, which I see as your method for
enjoying this forum.

Yours, Larry Parr



J.D. Walker wrote:
wrote:

First, to the Rev. Walker. NMnot Taylor Kingston
is crawling to you. He and I have had our historical
discussions before, especially regarding the Oxford
Companion to Chess. He bailed out. It has been his
practice in discussions to invent pseudonyms and then
post PRAISE OF HIMSELF under these false names.


Dear Mr. Parr,

I am going to remain outside of the flame war. You said that you get
great pleasure from the verbal conflict. Possibly you see it as
something like a fox hunt where your hounds are baying at several of the
critters now.

I am not sure how the others see their engagement. A battle for truth
as they see it? Revenge? I do not know.

Although I am new to these news groups, I do have the advantage that the
others presumably do not of knowing you from the "old days." I leave
you to your sport.


Regards,

Rev. J.D. Walker, MsD, U.C.

--
"... what our scientist does not realize is that every time he makes a
measurement, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is there changing the results
with His Noodly Appendage."

-- Bobby Henderson in support of Intelligent Design...