On Tue, 8 Nov 1994, Eric Siegel wrote: > Hank, > > 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. > > 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. > > A civilized request to maintain a civilized discourse. It's > rare enough in this world. > > Eric Siegel > [log in to unmask]> > 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. * * * * * Hank Burchard * Weekend Section * The Washington Post 1150 15th Street NW * Washington DC USA 20071-0001 VoiceMail (202) 334-7243 * Email: [log in to unmask]