Reef Fish (Large Nassau Grouper) wrote:

> Prof. Vincent Brannigan wrote:
> >
> > Reef Fish (Large Nassau Grouper) wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > But we were not talking about the usage of "average" as an
> > > ADJECTIVE (as in Steve's statment), were we? The "average"
> > > statement by you in question was a NOUN, the "mean" or "average"
> > > of numbers.
> >
> > nonsense
> > From websters
>
> That's your favorite. Using Webster OUT OF CONTEXT.

I used a dictionary to point out an accepted meaning of a word to a person
who did not udnerstadn that meaning.frankly I don't know any othe context in
whichone uses a dictionary

>
>
> This is what Brian Wagner said about your "average":
>
> > All well and good. However, didn't this all stem from Bob coreecting
> > someone's assertion that half the 10 year olds were above average, and
> > half were below? That is definitely a quantitiative proposition, and
>
> That someone was of course YOU.

you are wrong. Kuty was the one who intorduced medians into the
discussion. I pointed out that doctors are nto mathmatical quantites so
therefore do not have medians or means. look it up.


>THOS keywords will flush you out.

Actaully "vince" works even better

Vince

Bob Crownfield wrote:
>
> Reef Fish (Large Nassau Grouper) wrote:
> >
> > Bob Crownfield wrote:
> > >
> > > Reef Fish (Large Nassau Grouper) wrote:
> >
> > Regarding Vince Brannigan's change of his name in REC.SCUBA:
> >
> > > > Yes, you have used the same email address, but this is the first
> > > > time you used the NAME "firelaw". Since Deja.com search is often
> > > > done with the NAME rather than the email address, my paragraph
> > > > above applies. So, why did you change your NAME to "firelaw"?
> >
> > >
> > > Bob: dejanews only found several thousand posts with firelaw.
> >
> > Not if you use "firelaw" as the keyword and specify rec.scuba
> > as the Forum. You get NO hit.
>
> however,
>
> "Messages
> 1-25 of 100 matches" for firelaw@wam.umd.edu> and rec.scuba which all
> list P V B as the author

But look at the first 4 lines of this post. It did not give any of
email addresses. Only the NAMES attached to the email addresses.
I know how to find him. YOU know how to find him. But that wasn't
my point. The point was, WHY did he change the NAME that has
never appeared with his email address in rec.scuba before?

It makes it NOT obvious for anyone reading a post or a reply to his
post that "firelaw" is needed some Professor by the name of
Vince Brannigan. People would only say, how stupid that "firelaw"
person is (without knowing it is the same Vince Brannigan, and
the same Professor Vince Brannigan). I've seen another cryptic
name of his. That is NOT it, but if you see:

" cbj21 wrote: "

would you know it's him or someone else? THAT's the point of
deliberate concealment, in an attempt to hide his own dirty
laundry.