CopperLine wrote:Oracle wrote:CopperLine wrote:Tim Drayton, repent immediately before the one and only Oracle who shamelessly turns the word mostly into the word only. Your 'error' is to have a care.
.... And a challenge to you to show me where I have done that, will undoubtedly meet with the same waffle as Tim!
This is what Oracle wrote :
Obviously detailing one death, from one side is hardly conducive to laying anything to rest.
Did the GCs only lose mostly men, and only in 1974 as the article suggests ....
Quote:
Greek Cypriots have their own missing, mostly men killed at the time of the Turkish invasion in 1974.
http://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus19728.htmlAnd this was my later reply :
Oracle : before you start giving lessons on truth and accuracy I suggest that you catch up on basic meanings of words in the English language : thus when someone writes
Quote:
Greek Cypriots have their own missing, mostly men killed at the time of the Turkish invasion in 1974
it does not mean and cannot mean
Quote:
only in 1974 as the article suggests .
. The article doesn't say, let alone suggest, anything of the kind - it says something which is objectively the case that most Greek Cypriots killed were men and that most of those Greek Cypriot men who were killed were killed at the time of the Turkish invasion. If you are actually denying this i.e, that most Greek Cypriot men were not killed at the time of the Turkish invasion then when were they killed ? before the Turkish invasion ? What, under the dominant rule of .... Greek Cypriots ?
She does not say anywhere that they were only killed in 1974. I won't accuse you of lying, just plain dishonesty.
So there,
Oracle, is the answer to your 'challenge to you to show me where I have done that', exactly as I said in the first place.
You suggested I transposed the words
only and
mostly ...... where exactly did I do that, except in your
head? They were used
independently for two different things. The
only referred to the article difference jumping from
1963 to
1974 and not comparing like-for-like as though "like" did not exist for those two years.
We discussed this, and it showed you were
trying to ignore the unfairness of doing that.
Your interpretation bears no resemblance to my statements.
As I said, you and Tim suffer from the same affliction of changing things around, then disproving the mutated transcripts to prove them wrong, so that you appear right.
So you too have failed!