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Thread #133877 Message #3045410
Posted By: MGM·Lion
03-Dec-10 - 03:52 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bishop Suspended - critic of royal wedding
Subject: RE: BS: Bishop Suspended - critic of royal wedding
Dear Joe: Indeed. Sorry. I had not intended to return to this thread as I said above: but someone told me about your polite note, so I thought it would be civil to respond to it.
I offered an unconditional apology to Mr Mandotim yesterday at 01·51 pm for having clumsily used a throwaway adjective intended to apply to a sesquipedalian statement, but which he had misunderstood as intended to apply to him personally, which could not have been further from my intention. He did not see fit to accept this apology, but continued contentiously; and I admit that I, probably foolishly, rose to this challenge.
I now repeat this apology; I assure him yet again I intended no personal attack, and that I have every respect for his academic position and achievements ~~ as I have for all academic activity. (My dead darling first wife was also an academic with a considerable academic publishing record.)
I hope Tim will now see fit to accept my apology in the spirit I intend, and leave this pointless wrangling, which I am finding somewhat wearing. I must say I think it would be, to adopt your happy locution, somewhat 'churlish' of him not to do so.
~Michael~