OT: A political/personal review (was - RE: Two for the road, Report from Clerk & Nonstandard Subtotals)

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Lerebours, Jose propounded (on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:43:06AM -0600):
| JP wondered:
| 
| > | John post was offensive to me as a reader let alone to Brian.  I
| > | think it was insulting and as usual, questioned a member's skills
| > | and intelligence.  Why should John denounce Brian skills as lower
| > | than Howie?  I have seen some of Howie's post to this list and they
| > | leave much to question coming from Howie - They are proof that
| > | even Howie does NOT know it all (John is on that plato on his own).
| > 
| > Plato? What does Plato have to do with any of this?  Or Socrates or
| > Aristophanes or Homer or any other of those ancient Greeks?
| > 
| 
| >From the Spanish word "plato" which means "platform" or "level" ... 
| or at least as intended.  I guess I should have enclosed it within 
| quotes or something.
| 
| You disappoint me.  You know enough Spanish to have picked that up!

Aha, that's a word I did not know in Spanish. 

Now you've taught me that Spanish uses a phonetic spelling of the French
"plateau"; but English spells it as in French: "plateau".  :-)

-- 
JP