[lbo-talk] "Dead wrong"

[Bill Bartlett]

At 8:37 AM -0500 1/12/03, Kenneth Campbell wrote:


>The only thing I've ever found "dead wrong" are statements that
>something is "dead wrong."
>
>It takes an extreme kind of statement to qualify for the badge of Dead
>Wrong.

Just a figure of speech, intended to emphasise a point, don't take it 
literally.

>Saying someone _is_ merely alienates -- which you are arguing against,
>Bill, in your own post.

Oops.

>If you read the above chaps in their entirety, and not in isolation on
>some point, they are complex and nuanced people. I've never seen them
>write anything that is "dead wrong." I disagree sometimes, but I
>understand what they are saying.

OK, OK. I take it back.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas