Breakdown of Internet Arguments

[Zephie]

[HopeHoops]

1. Old faithful: "Poopie head"

[UTUSN]

2. Excellent graphic. The top 3 are known to me almost only in the abstract n/t

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. Yeah well what do you know? It's not like you're an expert in the subject.

That was my ad hominem example. :)

[UTUSN]

4. I'm *very* familiar with the bottom 4, including ad hominem.

It's the positive/constructive ones I seldom see. Usually I see any or all of the negative ones in the "keystone" or very first Reply to most of my threads.


First look at your Reply gave me the familiar knot in the stomach, but all's good now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Check this exact development here

http://nadinbrzezinski.posterous.com/on-solyndra-energy-the-usps-and-the-media

No serious it followed exactly that, all the way to calling the visitor on his use of fallacies.

Textbook

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

6. I like it!

:bounce:

[Xipe Totec]

7. Y tu mamá también!

Lowest rung: Polyglotic name-calling.

:evilgrin:

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. "You are an asshat" is correct grammar. "Your an asshat, asshat!" is more likely.

Oops, the pyramid is missing me: The Grammar Nazi...

[TK421]

9. care to post a link to back that up?

[dimbear]

10. Let us accord all due respect to the last two tiers. There have been

some very great masters of those arts, for instance the wit of Johnson, the sallies of Swift, Rabelais, the Algonquin Circle, and so on.

Character assassination and the associated obloquies can be quite entertaining, at least for other than its victim. Actually, even for its victim if a large personality.

History has its examples of people made immortal as the butts of wit. There are worse fates. We wouldn't often think of Mr Diaper otherwise.