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On Tue, 8 Nov 1994, Eric Siegel wrote:
> Hank,
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> I would like to make a public request that you consider
> making your language a bit more restrained. By being
> so...emphatic, you are inviting similarly emphatic
> disagreement, and so on up a spiral.
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> Please remember that, unlike your newspaper column, these
> posts are read by museum professionals with broad expertise
> and experience. Some of your enthusiastic postings sound a
> bit patronizing and unconsidered, to me at least.
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> A civilized request to maintain a civilized discourse. It's
> rare enough in this world.
>
> Eric Siegel
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Thanks for the patronizing sermonette, ES. I'm sorry if plain
English grates on academic ears, but not sorry enough to stop calling a
spade a spade. As for the elevation of this audience in comparison with
the great unwashed who only read newspapers, I am not impressed.
Credentials are no guarantee of credibility: An error is an error and an
inanity is an inanity, whatever the source.
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Hank Burchard * Weekend Section * The Washington Post
1150 15th Street NW * Washington DC USA 20071-0001
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