What is your point?
Uninterested because unable. And unable because of what?
What is your point?
I have a certain horizon before me. It did not yet shrink into a point like it did for some people.
I suggest that we take Don’s failure to provide an earnest reply to this question as tacit agreement with my summary in post #207, and afford his “point” all the consideration and admiration that it deserves.
Well, I appreciate the response, although it doesn’t really address the question that’s been asked of you since the first page. What is the argument you are making in this thread with regard to Frank Abagnale and the sociology course he taught/assisted in the teaching of/whatever?
My assertion is that a person whose job is to write articles that Shakespeare was a fag could not invent something what increases mpg.
Y’know, I get the feeling that at some point in the past, some people with a high level of “book learning” in the Liberal Arts or Social Sciences were traumatizingly mean to Don Simus.
:rolleyes: An apparent phobia about heights, it says so right in the post that contained the anecdote, didn’t it? It sure isn’t likely that it’s because she’s a Sociology major or a Modern Art collector.
And how does it feel?
Again a euphemism. Don’t we have an English word for it?
Of course. You interchanged cause and effect.
What euphemism?
I’d think you were fishing for “acrophobia,” but that’s one of those big dictionary words that a college fancypants might use, so that can’t be it.
This is even more Greek and less Saxon than the previous version.
Well, so far we various posters have tried “afraid” (IN THE VERY POST THAT DESCRIBES THE SITUATION), “unable”, “phobia”/“acrophobia” and no dice. And I emphasize that first bit because normally someone denouncing “an euphemism” in this situation would be fishing for the word “fear”, in order to impugn a weakness of character. But since “afraid” WAS already there, our OP continues to be obstinately opaque about what in Hell’s blazes is he trying to communicate.
Angst?
Lots of English words have Greek roots. You know, like “euphemism.”
You know what? I have no idea what Don Simus is trying to say in this thread and clearly neither does he.
Exactly. The very first post used the euphemism “afraid of heights” and I asked to use the right word. Instead the posters started replacing Saxon words with Greek ones. Why not use a simple English word?
Some people can’t pilot an airplane because they are …
Fill in the dots please.
Poopypants?
And a Swiss patent clerk could not have anything useful to contribute to physics, I’m sure.
I’m kinda glad now I didn’t tell you I have a pilot’s license.
There’s this other guy in the title of a bad piece of fiction by Dan Brown.