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West Marine ,, is that the worst store or what
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. |
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