"Ernest Scribbler" wrote in message
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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote
The NUC class consists of vessels that may or may not move in and out of
the class.

Other than coming up with some stunningly insipid ad hominems, you're just
not doing a very good job here, Wilbur. With your characteristic dearth of
brevity, you've amply explained that a class, as you define it, is a
temporary condition that any vessel (or human) can enter or leave. The
problem isn't with your explanation, it's that there's just no sensible
way to square it with your earlier assertion that another temporary
condition,


Hold it! Stop right there! Cease, desist, arrêt, anschlag, arresto, batente,
????, parada ! I said nothing about overtaking being a "condition." I did
say that overtaking is an "action" and that is the crux of the matter.

It is not appropriate to add an action to a class of vessels being
delineated by their state of being. A NUC is a state of being. A RAM is a
state of being. A sailboat is a state of being. But not OVERTAKING.
Overtaking is an action. An action does not belong in a list of states of
being.

overtaking, doesn't fit your definition of a class. What you fail to
recognize, is that I haven't called into question your position on what
should or shouldn't be included in the mnemonic, I've only pointed out
that your argument against the inclusion in question is specious at best.

Simply not so. What's in question is your total failure to understand simple
concepts such as state of being versus action. Noun versus verb. Action is
described by a verb. Vessel A overtakes Vessel B as opposed to Vessel a is a
NUC and Vessel B is a RAM or vessel C is a SAILBOAT. Would you include a
verb in a list of nouns? Perhaps so since you appear to have little or no
concept of the structure of the English language. Here I am treating with a
functionally illiterate individual trying to make a point while the the very
language we use is not understood by you. Do you see why now I often feel a
sense of hopelessness when dealing with the dregs that most often post here?

Perhaps if you spent a little less time pontificating, you could do a
better job of explaining yourself.

In order to break through the brick wall that is your mind one needs
pontificate and pontificate plenty in order to just get your attention. Once
attention is gotten then comes the long process of attempting to impart the
education you obviously missed in school.


You, sir, are a dunce!

You, sir, have no class...

You might have a point there or why would I be bothering trying to educate
the classless?


Wilbur Hubbard