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Posted by Kris Krieger on June 4, 2008, 2:54 pm
>> innews:ab61fa79-ba47-497a-93e4-a497a
> 11ffc27@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:
>>
>> >> > And they say Americans are growing up so "media savvy." pshaw.
>>
>> >> Media inundated. DIfferent from "savvy". From the French (IIRC)
>> >> f
> or
>> > "to
>> >> know", "savvy" implies some level of comprehension of what it is
>> >> that one
>>
>> > No, I meant what I said.
>>
>> Huh? What does that have to do with the etymology of the word
>> "savvy" a
> nd
>
> Nothing. If you think it should, that is clearly your own fabrication.
>
> Simple sentences, both of them. I'll repeat myself and allow it to
> apply to both posts -
>
> I meant what I said.
>
> Though with people coming on and inventing lack of content (?!) to my
> words, it hardly seems worth trying to express myself. At least, not
> quite so plainly. That's one reason I don't post here much. Simple
> little post "No, I meant what I said" and I'm called upon to defend it
> against arguments other people are having with themselves? Yeah right.
>
> It has nothing to do with etymology or tea in china or the full range
> of my beliefs or anything YOU might wish to project on it. I realize
> that this is the naughties and post-modernism is still pretty strong
> in the world and you are "allowed" to pretend stuff means whatever you
> think it means with no regard to what it says, but that's a game for
> leftists, academics and fools. Sometimes it can be fun and even get
> you a degree but it is, barring one critical piece of utility, utterly
> useless.
Sounds to me like a self-description on your part.
>
> No, I meant what I said.
>
Whatever, dood.
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