Re: Most of the People!!

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

At 09:08 26/03/01 +0100, you wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
>     The delight of a list such as this one is that it
> resembles a good
> 'buffet lunch' - one can wander through, take interest in what you want
> or
> need at the time and, without prejudice, leave the rest to others or
> for
> more studied attention later.
>
>     The potential for good or ill with such a varied list
> f contributors is
> enormous. Yet, despite differing backgrounds, age and cultural
> differences
> the list unites a wide variety of people from many nations in
> productive
> discussion. This very diversity is, of course, the great strength of
> the
> list which adds to the family links that unite the founders of the list
> and
> the vast majority, but not all, of the contributors. The diversity
> of
> backgrounds, humour, open-mindedness and non-prejudicial discussion
> that
> dominate the majority of debates are a constant source of delight
> and
> information. Long may it last. However,while most of the people may be
> an
> easily mis-construed term, it pays me to remember the truth of the old
> latin
> tag - quot homines, tot setentiae - there are as many opinions as there
> are
> people - long may that continue. Differences lead to debate, debate
> inspires
> research and that's healthy.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Tim
  And, as Bob Flaws, the new editor of "Yours
Aye" has just reminded us,
Mark Twain didn't think much of a person's creativity if they couldn't
spell
a word in at least two different ways!!

And, as we have seen from the Discussion List, it is possible for
certain
contributors (NS for example) to have conflicting thoughts in the
middle
of the same sentence.

And, before I am being assailed from every side for beginning sentences
with 
"AND" , I am well aware that such a
practice is frowned upon which, in large
measure, is why I indulge in this grammatical faux pas.

As Tim points out; "Diversity is all".  Or, perhaps, that
should read 'perversity'
which is the most enduring (if not the most endearing) Sinclair
trait.

Perversely,

Niven Sinclair 



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