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From: Blue Chip
Date: Fri Jan 10, 2003 12:54pm
Subject: Re: Photoreading
At 00:52 10/01/03 -0800, you wrote:
>>A transcript of approx the last 45 seconds of the
>Devil's Picturebook:
>
>DB: "If I do a book test, I do it by photoreading
>the book first. You
>know, I'll sit for 20 minutes reading through the
>book... and then say "oh
>go on, test me open it up anywhere you like and that
>makes sense of
>the book test
>
>It would be if he had actually said that which you
>claim.
>
>Yeah - it's hugely different isn't it.
Not THAT different, but it certainly lacks the words "I pretend"
> Fine, I'm sure he did it by photoreading.
I'm still not convinced. Although his presentation would even suggest
photoreading to a photoreader - that's not to say that he wasn't devious in
some way.
> Perhaps you're being slightly pedantic here?
Pendantry is something that I am known for. I use to to remove ambiguity
and inaccuracy, so as to REMOVE confusion. In this case I could have said
"he doesn't say 'pretend'", but that would have sounded simply
confrontational, and having already told a.n.other board member that "oh ne
it isn't" is a lousy way to make your point, I'd would kinda be
hypocritical to do it myself. I also took the effort to ensure that the
sentence I quoted was verbatim - right down to the punctuation - maybe that
could have been mistaken for pedantry, but there are people modelling DB,
they don't want to be mislead by inaccurate quotes.
| Replies | Author | Yahoo! ID | Date | Size |
| 2309: Re: Photoreading | Rob Dobson | northerncomfortuk | Fri 10/01/2003 | 6 KB |
| 2355: Re: Photoreading | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Mon 13/01/2003 | 8 KB |
