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Regarding Max Michaels Editorial:

Name: Dorothy Parker
Hometown: Jacksonville
Sent: 18.34 - 7/9

Dear Editor,

As a disinterested party, I am afraid that I should have to side with your reader on several points, and recommend that you spend a little more time with a dictionary than a thesaurus. "Twisting" words is an activity in which the person who repeats someone elses words either edits them in such a way or subtly changes them in order to produce a meaning which is the opposite of the intended message AND in such a way that it sounds as though the original speaker meant to imply the new, opposite interpretation.

Your reader merely characterized what he thought of your opinion. He did not have a 'twisted' opinion of it.

Secondly, in the interests of accuracy, the reader did not criticize you personally, per se, but rather he criticized your opinion. Perhaps a fine distinction, but an important one for the purposes of rebuttal.

Lastly, you really should have someone else write your opinions for you. Since they are so half baked and only technically understandable, one often runs the risk of thinking you an abysmal fool, which I am quite sure that you are not.

Perhaps your unfamiliarity with literature and lack of higher education is really to blame here. Many people who have never had the benefit of a proper education often find their otherwise valuable opinions and ideas completely sabotoged by their fumbling attempts to articulate them.

I am sure this is the case with your own writing.

Anyways, please give my regards to your webmaster, this is the least wretched your online publication has ever been.

I didn't feel sick to my stomach even once with this new design....a marked improvement.

Love.
Dorothy

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Response from Max Michaels:

Dear Dorothy,

In response to: "Many people who have never had the benefit of a proper education often find their otherwise valuable opinions and ideas completely sabotoged by their fumbling attempts to articulate them." from your posting.

I totally agree with you. Those people usually are SABOTAGED by their own fumbling! I guess you are also right about the fact that it does devalue the validity of that individuals opinion.

Perhaps you should put down those stones and pick up a dictionary yourself.

_Max
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Response from Guestbook:

Name: erroneous_nick, again
Sent: 19.09 - 7/9

Ms. Parker-
Please get your head out of your ass and stick in the oven where it belongs. If one is to write in such an articulate and lofty manner, one should learn to avoid run-on sentences.