Comments on: Nobody ever said… a post on semantic difficulties http://walt.lishost.org/2008/01/nobody-ever-said-a-post-on-semantic-difficulties/ The library voice of the radical middle. Tue, 21 May 2013 20:18:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Steve Lawson http://walt.lishost.org/2008/01/nobody-ever-said-a-post-on-semantic-difficulties/comment-page-1/#comment-31508 Steve Lawson Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:44:26 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=694#comment-31508 Interesting to note that Ms. Farkas seems to read Mr. Bradley the same way that Mr. Crawford does. Here’s a link to her comment:

http://tinyurl.com/25ccxk

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2008/01/nobody-ever-said-a-post-on-semantic-difficulties/comment-page-1/#comment-31499 walt Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:48:22 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=694#comment-31499 I posted a commentary on what you posted in your blog–a post in which you were commenting on what Meredith Farkas had to say. And I comment on the language you used. I do not say anything about what you were “reported as saying” or “may have said.” I comment on the words that are in your blog, linking directly to them.

In fact, I don’t believe there is any confusion about what you mean. I threw in one “(seems to)” because I recognize someone could say “but he didn’t use those words.” Maybe I should have omitted that qualification.

I believe you were saying “Every library should have a blog,” but not in those words. So, apparently, based on her comment on your post, does Meredith Farkas.

Oddly, I can’t remember once, in the nearly three years that I’ve been blogging, that any other blogger has ever asked me (through email or any other private method) to clarify what I was saying, or let me know in advance that they were planning to write about what I wrote. I’ve certainly been attacked for what I’ve written. Never, not once, have I felt that it was discourteous or unfair for someone to publicly comment on what I publicly wrote without giving me advance warning.

“Is it too much to hope that there will not be a third repetition?”
Yes, it is–unless I create a short list of bloggers who I deliberately avoid responding to or commenting on. Maybe I should do that. Naturally, it would also mean unsubscribing from your blog and adding it to a (currently nonexistent) list of sources that I never use for possible Cites & Insights coverage and praise. I cited your blog three times last year in C&I, in each case favorably.

If you’re asking that I let you know before I write about something you’ve said–sorry, but that’s just not going to happen, any more than it happens for Farkas or Salo or Crawford or Stephens or Lawson or anyone else who writes publicly.

]]> By: Phil Bradley http://walt.lishost.org/2008/01/nobody-ever-said-a-post-on-semantic-difficulties/comment-page-1/#comment-31495 Phil Bradley Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:18:55 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=694#comment-31495 If there is a semantic difficulty, confusion or problem there is of course an obvious option – to actually *ask* the person involved to explain in more detail exactly what they meant, or to seek clarification.

This is the second time you’ve posted about what I have said, have not said, may have said or have been reported as saying. This is also the second time that you’ve done me neither the courtesy of asking me for clarification or letting me know that you’re writing about me.

Is it too much to hope that there will not be a third repetition?

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