Dr. Moore hits it out of the park.
As for the staff over on a particular website on the web:
SeN staff writer 2 wrote:In fact, my objection to the word homophobia isn’t really about homosexuality as such. It’s about civil, respectful discourse.
Yet earlier:
SeN staff writer 1 wrote:For decades, I’ve been caught up in the study and teaching and analysis of languages and texts. I read books about lexicography for fun
Clearly, he's studied lexicography at the expense of basic logic. Is the problem disrespect, or nonsense words? Is he saying nonsense words are always disrespectful?
When the young black girl working fast food asked him to clarify what he meant by "a couple" of tacos, he was so greatly disturbed that he blogged about it in an epic-length post. At that time, he didn't appear to think the girl was a militant political leftist rising to mock the word "marriage". It was, you know, the offense to his perfect pitch for lexicography. It literally hurt his ears.
Of course, we know it can't all be about lexicography, if it were so, then he'd throw in with those waging war on Christmas. How dare people take Christ out of Christmas, even a little bit, to generalize the spirit of the holiday to persons of other faiths?
Oh yes, there's a connection between disrespect and words, but it might take a psychiatrist to explain this to him. For decades, he and his Mopologist buddies have used spelling and grammar correction as a means for disrespecting people they don't like. On the "a couple" thread, Kiwi57 himself admitted there were contexts where it could be okay say "a couple" when meaning more than two. Did the staff writer debate it? Had Kiwi used it that way, would it have sparked a blog entry?
No. Disregard Kiwi, did the staff writer ever take issue with the writing of ldsfaqs or Hurricane S? Never. His perfect pitch is reserved either for critics, or generally, for the "underclass" of society he despises, and that he associates with criticism of the Church. In his mind, lower education levels, especially in those subjects important to "high culture" correspond with dissent with the Church, and high levels of education and culture correspond to obedience to the Brethren -- see MST. His lexicography has always ever been about one thing. To puff himself up as a great intellect who bears the right to dismiss anyone offensive to him for any reason.
