"Let him rot" was a euphamism (Jack the Sailor)

euphemism: the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for for one that may offend (Websters)

I'm curious, Jack, what would you have said if you had not used this unoffensive expression?

Jack, you make assumptions about me that are totally wrong. I make a lot of errors and I like to laugh about myself. I do not scan what I read for laughs I sometimes stumble upon it (even when rereading what I have written).

And I thought it was completely clear that I had laughed about the first quote. If you cannot laugh about yourself when you see the two sentences in juxtaposition, I'm sorry for you.

With the second quote from you I was completely serious. I do not consider it laughing matter if one country is singled out for different treatment by a word like 'especially'. You just could have explained it instead of firing off insults.

Wolfgang