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Originally posted by Historian
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Tilla, I appreciate you taking the time to explain, and I now fully understand what transpired.
However, for the life of me I cannot understand the apparent anger and unnecessary asides in your second post (your reference to “grown men,” etc.)! The word “banned,” as even a child will attest, has ominous overtones! No amount of euphemistic efforts and condemnations of Historian on the part of you or Mosiah will change BOTH the denotation (that is, dictionary meaning) and the connotation (the idea suggested by the word) of the word “banned”!
Do I need to post a lecture here on “diction”(word choice)? Believe me, I can do so at a moment’s notice! Surely, you and your team could have come up with an alternative verb to “banned! With a little creativity on the part of you and your team, you could have devised one or two neutral verbs.
When all is said and done, the fact is that I do NOT know Sickko on a personal basis, I have never ever spoken to him (or anyone else on this forum for that matter), and I have no direct means of contacting him. Why should I?
Although I appreciate you taking the time to explain, in the final analysis my comments yesterday were not made out of any personal concern why he was banned (it is really not my business), but rather, just an observation after reading the posts and recalling what I SAW repeatedly beside his username.
(PS, Mosiah, there is no earthly reason for you to be disappointed, as like most people I cannot read minds. I made my remark yesterday because it is a FACT that I saw the word “banned” beside his name every time I came across it in the Archives.)
Communication can be a problem, as we have seen so often in Jamaica and elsewhere, but the comments aimed at me in this thread border on the ridiculous!!
However, for the life of me I cannot understand the apparent anger and unnecessary asides in your second post (your reference to “grown men,” etc.)! The word “banned,” as even a child will attest, has ominous overtones! No amount of euphemistic efforts and condemnations of Historian on the part of you or Mosiah will change BOTH the denotation (that is, dictionary meaning) and the connotation (the idea suggested by the word) of the word “banned”!
Do I need to post a lecture here on “diction”(word choice)? Believe me, I can do so at a moment’s notice! Surely, you and your team could have come up with an alternative verb to “banned! With a little creativity on the part of you and your team, you could have devised one or two neutral verbs.
When all is said and done, the fact is that I do NOT know Sickko on a personal basis, I have never ever spoken to him (or anyone else on this forum for that matter), and I have no direct means of contacting him. Why should I?
Although I appreciate you taking the time to explain, in the final analysis my comments yesterday were not made out of any personal concern why he was banned (it is really not my business), but rather, just an observation after reading the posts and recalling what I SAW repeatedly beside his username.
(PS, Mosiah, there is no earthly reason for you to be disappointed, as like most people I cannot read minds. I made my remark yesterday because it is a FACT that I saw the word “banned” beside his name every time I came across it in the Archives.)
Communication can be a problem, as we have seen so often in Jamaica and elsewhere, but the comments aimed at me in this thread border on the ridiculous!! 
woiiee mi spleen!! Jah know seh dis yah forum noice more time
Suppose one desires one of these standard setting English "lectures" of yours....does one have to pay?? If nat...sign mi up quickquick!!
Gwaan Mosiah the Forum Road Scholar.
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
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