[EM] The meaning of this discussion (or lack thereof)

matt welland matt at kiatoa.com
Mon Aug 29 20:59:41 PDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 04:28 -0400, Michael Allan wrote:
> matt welland wrote:
> > I did not say that a "vote has little meaning", I said that it is
> > meaningless to discuss the individual vote! Those are two vastly
> > different things.
> 
> Well, I think what you said is wrong.  Here is the original version:
> 
> > > > The meaning of an individual vote is mostly irrelevant and
> > > > pointless to discuss. ...
> 
> This implies that the individual vote itself is irrelevant.  I wish to
> clarify your intention on that point: are you saying that the
> individual vote is irrelevant

Ah, yes I can see the error. Some poor and ambiguous English on my part.
I intended to group the "irrelevant and pointless" and apply it to the
word "discuss". Sorry about that.





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