12-28-2021, 05:58 PM
(12-28-2021, 05:42 PM)fifteenth Wrote: Oh, mavsluvr, my "poking fun" really was just having fun, not poking. It sure wasn't meant to be at your expense, and if it was, my bad!!
No offense taken, fif, I thought your comments were very funny.
I actually hadn't thought through "everyman" as a rhetorical device. It's kind that you suggest that I come accross like that, but typically, whatever style I employ is just "how I talk or think".
I believe you. It's not necessary to even know that you are using a rhetorical device in order to employ one effectively.
I'm not a scientist, or anthing more than an amature scholar,
In addition to the Everyman rhetoric ("it's just little old me"), I see what you did there, lol.
An aside, there is a fun forum that I visit called Peaceful Science where I watch scientists and non-scientists argue with each other. It's located here: https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/. The discussion breaks down into all of the wrong ways to discuss things on which the internet majors on at times. But sometimes, you get a glimpse of some really smart people discussing things that might approach good scholarly dialogue.
I will take a look at this, thanks for the reference.