[Sca-cooks] Fun and ignorance - The Response

[Martin G. Diehl]

Stefan li Rous wrote:
>
> Martin G. Diehl gave a very good analasys of a recent letter sent
>
> by "Editor- Alternative-Beauty.com" to Apollonia:
>
> > Signora Apollonia Margherita degli Albizzi wrote:
> >>
> >> Here are the thought of the editor of the page...
> >
> > .. and I have inserted another way to analyze her response ...
> >
> > Please NOTE that my comments here are simply my initial analysis of
> > the editor's response to Apollonia merely to expose the wide use of
> > false rhetoric in that response.
>
> <snip>
>
> >> Your commentary first of all was terribly unkind.
> >
> > Appeal to pity.
> >
> >> Second- you offer no validity for your comments such as a PHD in
> >> cultural study for example.  Which I suspect you are not as if you
> >> were- you would first of all know that although N. Culpepper was
> >> notorious in his day- that was the case only in particular realms
> >> and not the whole of the medieval era GLOBALLY.
> >
> > Ad Hominem attack against Apollonia
> >
> > Misleading response since Culpepper is a Renaissance source not Medieval.
> <snip>
>
> >> Suggestions for improvement are always welcome- however, your very
> >> uncouth approach only serves to discredit any commentary you may make-
> >
> > Discredit the prior message while not giving us any way to judge the
> > validity of the editor's claim.  e.g., just saying that something in
> > the article was incorrect might have been enough to elicit her
> > "I have to defend myself against this unjustified attack" response.
> >
> >> and, do NOT email me ever again.
> >
> > Rejecting any discussion.
> >
> >> Best wishes-
> >
> > Inconsistent
> >
> >> Editor- Alternative-Beauty.com
> >
> > Additional side note ... I suggest that we make Google an honorary SCAdian,
> > it had about 1,000,000 references to "Rhetoric"; 37,100 to Hildegard, ...
> >
> > .. and to put this back on topic, all of the above is food for thought.
>
> Thank you Martin, for some quite interesting commentary. I have never had
> any formal training in rhetoric, so this is all new to me.
>
> I did not like this Editor's reply and found it very rude. I admit I
> have not seen Apollonia's original message but I think only a very rude
> letter should rate such a reply. It smacks to me very much of someone
> who is unsure of her own facts and unwilling to listen or consider other
> viewpoints. A bad trait, in my opinion, for an "Editor".
>
> I've been very tempted to put much of this thread into the Florilegium. I
> suspect that the search engines would find it in short order and that it
> would then get referanced when anyone asked about "Alternative-Beauty.com".
> However, to do so would violate my own rules about posting private email
> and it is probably getting a bit far from the general purpose of my site.

Perhaps just the links to Rhetoric for now and wait for more

> Stefan li Rous
> stefan at florilegium.org

Vincenzo

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Martin G. Diehl

Reality -- That which remains after you stop thinking
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