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I am partial to choice #1 and choice #3. And choice #4. And choice #4.
That quote wasn’t about you. Thank you for demonstrating my point.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/your-coffee-room-report-card-comments#post-530082
Yes, it was directed towards you, and referred to something you said, but it wasn’t *about* you.
To quote from your OP: “A selection of the awesome comments people have said about me in the Coffee Room:”.
Unless you’ve now taken this entire thread out of context…
🙂
Ah, but it wasn’t “in reference” to you (which means the same as “about” you), it was an idea which I happened to be discussing with you. Since there was absolutely nothing personal even hinted at in my statement, it was out of context in the thread, which was supposed to be about comments referring to you. By putting it in this thread, you imply that there’s some way of construing it as personal, which there isn’t.
For example, lines and phrases such as, “your asinine intellectually dishonest misconceptions”, “It doesn’t matter how many seforim you can quote, you are crum”, “You for some reason seem incapable of making what is a fairly straightforward distinction” [ed. the “for some reason” is probably insufficient learning b’iyun :)], “You just like being contrarian”, “people find you so annoying…”, and even, “…taking R’ Chaim out of the realm of “hypothetical lomdus” is so outrageous, yet that is what you are doing” can be understood as being “about”, or “in reference to”, you. But, “Right is right, whether you can successfully prove it or not” has nothing to do with you, and cannot reasonably be construed that way.
Well, the ones that were about you were more funny (although I certainly do not agree with many of them).
Either way, I do appreciate your inclusion of some of my sayings in your list of “awesome” comments.
Probably the ones you quoted in your previous post.
Well, one of them, anyhow. I’m too polite to agree to the others.:)
Just keep in mind that even if I think that you had an awesome line it doesn’t mean that I think the line is valid in (certain) arguments, for instance the line about proving the truth.
Oh well, maybe one day…
It was even in context!
🙂
If you would know how to learn b’iyun, you would have chapped that it was a backhanded compliment. 😉
Oh, good, it counts even if I post it, instead of you.
It’s a little unfair, though, since I am involved in more discussions/debates with you than the others.
Is he beating me now?
Hey!!! I was quoted by The Mighty Powerful and Awesome Patur Aval Assur! Yay! I’m so proud of myself ;)!!!
Oh wait a minute. Was that too complimentary? Sorry
(This is probably the the only time I’ll appear in this thread – I don’t believe in ad hominem attacks.)
“The Mighty Powerful and Awesome Patur Aval Assur”
?????????? ?????? ????
LOL! For anyone who doesn’t understand, that last line is Aramaic for, essentially, “Have you finished all the praise?”
In the original context, (Brachos 33b*) a man who had added on to the standard formula of ??? ????? ????? ?????? at the beginning of Shmoneh Esrei is being questioned rhetorically if his additions had exhausted Hashem’s praises (i.e. seeing as this cannot be done, one should refrain from any such additions).
In this context, PAA questions, as if out of arrogance, why
cozimjewish did not give him more titles. The humor derives from
both the in-context meaning and what it references.
*I was only familiar with Megilla 25a, but that was enough to get the joke, and I found the version with ?????? on the Hebrew Wikisource.
The reason I didnt answer the question was because I had no clue what on earth it was asking;)
“For future reference, I don’t bite, so you can ask me to clarify what I have said/asked/answered.”
Translating hebrew/ lashon hakodesh (and certainly Aramaic, for that matter) is reeeeeaaaallly reeeeaaally reeeeeeeeaaaalllly NOT my thing. Didnt wanna sound stupid, so I waited to see if anybody else would ask……which they didnt, which made me think it must be something really obvious that I am supposed to know 😉
Finally, someone got it.How many people (that you don’t quote here) do you think read this thread?
I said “as if” so as not to accuse you of arrogance.
You’re either proclaiming real arrogance or remaining in-character, right? Or is there a third interpretation?
PAA – You left out the wink, which portrays me as cynical rather than joking as I intended
(Cozimjewish)
Randomex: How many people (that you don’t quote here) do you think read this thread?
Patur Avul Assur: Everyone.
Well, let’s find out! If you read this thread, please speak up.
If you don’t read this thread…
Never mind, this poll is called off!
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Me: You’re either proclaiming real arrogance or remaining in-character, right? Or is there a third interpretation?
Patur Aval Assur: Depends what you mean by “in-character”.
I retract both interpretations of your statement as mistakes.
The first interpretation (proclaiming real arrogance as a joke) is still a valid option for your question, but unless I’m mistaken, the meaning of both is that you wanted to clarify whether I was or was not accusing you of arrogance.
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“Facetious”
(Randomex)
“I think this is facetious…”
(Randomex)
Please disregard those statements, everyone. The meaning I intended is not what “facetious” actually means – I too am occasionally tripped up by my own Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
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“…I realized how bad your portrayal of the other CR members was…”
(DaasYochid)
So, by considering this a relevant comment about you, are you saying you were actually attempting to portray us in character?
[Reader references: http://theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/good-jokes/page/33#post-536619
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/creative-writing-cr-users-in-real-life#post-540659 ]
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To clarify a previous comment:
merely spewing Aramaic quotes that have no relevance to anything, but give the impression of being somewhat learned.
(Patur Avul Assur)
Precisely the point I was trying to make
(cozimjewish)
Also see here: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/your-coffee-room-report-card-comments/page/2#post-540812
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So you don’t actually think that I am merely spewing Aramaic quotes that have no relevance to anything, but give the impression of being somewhat learned?
She doesn’t have to answer that!
I’ll answer for myself, though – I know
that not to be the case.
(Explanation for everyone else: All she said was that her statement did not mean that – she did not say whether she believed it or not. That’s what he’s asking.)
Here are some unauthorized quotes:
“this is a very serious question I think we sould ask patur avul assur”
(Bendit)
“Patur avul Assur- you […] have obviosuly no respect for our Minhagim and our Gedolim. Shame on you.”
(smartcookie)
EDIT: I actually forgot to check if those were already there before posting, but it turns out they weren’t. I noticed Smartcookie’s other quote from that thread, through.
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