sherwindu wrote:
"Rosalie B." wrote:
sherwindu wrote:
You are a most pedantic fellow. You also have an annoying habit of straying
from
the true subject line. Not impressed by you Lincoln quotations.
Sherwin D.
Dave wrote:
On 20 Jun 2006 10:47:38 -0700, said:
Your idea of a conglomerate and mine are
different.
How many legs does a sheep have if you call its tail a leg?
[Attributed to A. Lincoln]
You all seem to be an annoying fellows who can't integrate data no
matter how many times and in how many different ways it is presented,
hoping that you will 'get it'..
Since it seems beyond you - what he was doing was pointing out that
the definition of conglomerate is "A corporation made up of a number
of different companies that operate in diversified fields."
Just having a very large company does not make it a conglomerate.
Your idea of a conglomerate is wrong - it is the same as calling the
sheep's tail a leg.
Yes, but who really cares when that was not the original essence of the
original message. It's called going off the subject. If I wanted my english
corrected, I would go to rec.betterenglish. It bugs me that when a question
or issue is raised, people go off on a tangent and the real issue never gets
addressed.
He wasn't correcting your English - he was correcting the idea of the
definition of conglomerate. If he were just correcting your English,
he would have said that the appropriate phrase to describe West Marine
and the effect they have on the chandlery markets was 'monopoly'.
Since we were discussing a large corporation which sells marine
products which was incorrectly calling a conglomerate, it was not off
topic here, but your remarks about Lincoln WERE off topic.
If tangential remarks bug you then you'd do better to go to a
moderated group or to get out of this venue altogether. I find it far
worse when folks engage in protracted slanging matches that are ON
topic.