(Nick) wrote in message . com...
"Tim Hanke" wrote in message ...

(Much snipped--please read it in my ancestral post here.)

Very little about *chess* in Nick's post, as usual;

This whole thread, "Because" (created by Bill Smythe), is an *undeclared
off-topic thread* about English usage. Everyone else's posts in this thread
have at most "very little", if anything at all, about chess. Indeed, my post
probably has more about chess than nearly every other post in this thread.
A Usenet search should find many posts of mine on various chess subjects.

but the usual condescending treatment of Americans and personal slams
against Tim Hanke.

In most of my post, I was writing about how I have attempted to defend the
honor of my thoughtful, humane American friends and the American people in
general against what I regard as some unjustly negative ignorant stereotypes
abroad. I do *not* include Tim Hanke among "*my* thoughtful, humane American
friends"; if Hanke prefers to construe that exclusion as a "personal slam",
then so be it.

magna veritas et prevalebit

(Sorry for the bad typing): magna est veritas et praevalebit

--Nick