[SpamCop-List] Re: I am getting more messages from this .pk server about listserver messages I can do nothing about.

[Mike Easter]

Geoffrey Hyde wrote:

> QED, mate.

Now that we've finished discussing the issue which initiated this
thread, let me remark on your usage of Q.E.D. in a discussion or debate
or disagreement of this nature -- because I also disagree with your
usage of that term or abbreviation, which has appeared a number of times
lately.

quod erat demonstrandum means, at the bottom of the mathematical proof,
that the 'which was to be demonstrated' has, in fact, been demonstrated.

In the course of a discussion or 'debate', throwing a premature qed into
the conversation isn't at all effective in the debate process.  It falls
quite flat, even in implying that the user is comfortable throwing
around Latin phrases or their abbreviations.

Especially when it doesn't come at the 'conclusion' of some kind of
irrefutable evidence.  Then it is just so much junk cluttering up the
corners like a dust bunny.

ergo

Geoffrey's QED = a dust bunny

mathematically speaking, of course


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin