Ar an dara lá déag de mí Aibreán, scríobh HenHanna:
Was PTD more of a Presence in Sci.Lang or in AUE?
I was never active in alt.usage.english so I can’t comment.
Was he a BIG FISH in other groups?
When did he come to Usenet?
Google Group suggests about 1997.
He doesn’t appear to be active anymore, not a great use of your time
to obsess about him.
Most recently, he disappeared from all newsgroups,
possibly because he was one of the many who were unable to
adapt to the disappearance of Google Groups from Usenet.
The BIG FISH comment reminds me of a Master's thesis, I
forget where, that analysed roles of people in newsgroups.
It caused great amusement here (AUE) because it so badly
miscategorised the roles of the regulars. In particular,
it concluded that PTD was the most-respected of the AUE
regulars, because of the many responses to him. It's true
that he did start the most arguments.
When once he replied to a post of mine persoanlly via
e-mail I felt as if a god has descended from a throne.
Peter Moylan wrote:
PTD originally was an inhabitant of sci.lang, but he appeared in AUE via
crossposts complaining about crossposts from AUE to sci.lang. Over time
he appeared more and more often in AUE, possibly because sci.lang seemed
to be in its death throes. (Not his fault, I gather.) He was a bit of a
misfit in AUE because he got into so many disputes, usually because of
an inability to admit when he was wrong.
And his astonishing ability to be wrong or misleading so often on so
many topics. Eventually a lot of people, including me, stopped
correcting him.
Anybody tried to e-mail those missing in action with a
suggestion to access Usenet via
<https://news.novabbs.org/>
Peter Moylan about PTD:
Most recently, he disappeared from all newsgroups, possibly because
he was one of the many who were unable to adapt to the
disappearance of Google Groups from Usenet.
Anybody tried to e-mail those missing in action with a suggestion to
access Usenet via <https://news.novabbs.org/> and perhaps
instructions for setting up a newsreader with a list of free Usenet
servers (<https://sybershock.com/#usenet>)?
When I mentioned having read in Wiki, spring of 2016 (a few years
earlier), that Trump as a 13-year-old had been sent to his military
academy/ boarding school (a 1959 alternative to Juvenile Detention)
after being deemed an incorrigible offender, PTD said he had never
read that. I accepted his authority: either I had read a short-lived
libel, or this bit of history has been well-scrubbed.
On 14/04/24 06:45, Rich Ulrich wrote:
When I mentioned having read in Wiki, spring of 2016 (a few years
earlier), that Trump as a 13-year-old had been sent to his military
academy/ boarding school (a 1959 alternative to Juvenile Detention)
after being deemed an incorrigible offender, PTD said he had never
read that. I accepted his authority: either I had read a short-lived
libel, or this bit of history has been well-scrubbed.
That part is well documented, including on Wikipedia, and Trump himself
has said that he was a high achiever (he would say that, wouldn't he?)
at the military academy. The part that he disputes is the reason for his >being sent there. A book written by his niece says that his family
decided to send him there because he was a bully and an uncontrollable >adolescent who didn't fit into a normal school.
It's not surprising that PTD didn't know that at the time, because it
took some time for the story to come out.
On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 16:45:28 -0400, Rich Ulrich
<rich.ulrich@comcast.net> wrote:
On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:52:57 +0000, jerry.friedman99@gmail.com >>(jerryfriedman) wrote:Trump did attend New York Military Academy. When Trump was 13, his
Peter Moylan wrote:
PTD originally was an inhabitant of sci.lang, but he appeared in AUE via >>>> crossposts complaining about crossposts from AUE to sci.lang. Over time >>>> he appeared more and more often in AUE, possibly because sci.lang seemed >>>> to be in its death throes. (Not his fault, I gather.) He was a bit of a >>>> misfit in AUE because he got into so many disputes, usually because of >>>> an inability to admit when he was wrong.
I would say, "inability to recognize when he was wrong."
And his astonishing ability to be wrong or misleading so often on so
many topics. Eventually a lot of people, including me, stopped >>>correcting him.
On the other hand, I ignored the language threads and many
others. There were other things of occasional interest.
Eventually, he and I agreed on a number of political observations,
and I was pleased with his recollection of political trivia relevant
to sins of Trump et al. He had-read a lot, with good recall.
When I mentioned having read in Wiki, spring of 2016 (a few years
earlier), that Trump as a 13-year-old had been sent to his
military academy/ boarding school (a 1959 alternative to Juvenile >>Detention) after being deemed an incorrigible offender, PTD said
he had never read that. I accepted his authority: either I had read
a short-lived libel, or this bit of history has been well-scrubbed.
father sent him there, though. When someone is sent to Juvenile
Detention, it is at a court order. In DJT's case, it was a family
decision, not by court order. What prompted the family decision,
though, is not stated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decades-later-disagreement-over-young-trumps-military-academy-post/2016/01/09/907a67b2-b3e0-11e5-a842-0feb51d1d124_story.html
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