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To: TLI
LOL! Like I said, critical thinking is not your friend. Your #966 proves my point far better than I could have done. Congratulations. Res ipsa loquitur.

FYI, I never said that bricks are the same as baseballs or that Hispanic is the same as white. That's YOUR erroneous misunderstanding of what others said. Your inability to comprehend simple English, if not feigned, is mind-boggling. If ignorance was money in the bank, you'd be Bill Gates.

I'll say this again as simply as I can and explain the big words since you seem to be a little slow. The word Hispanic (His-pan-ic: big word meaning of or related to Spain or Spanish speaking countries) refers to a person's nationality (na-tion-al-i-ty: big word meaning what country or part of the world your family comes from). Nationality and race are different (dif-fer-ent: big word meaning they are not the same) concepts (con-cepts: big word meaning ideas).

If you ever figure out that nationality and race refer to different things, you just might grasp that people of different nationalities can still be part of the same race. So too, people of different races can have the same nationality. That's what we city slickers call "a fortiori reasoning" (a for-ti-o-ri: big Latin word, it means if one thing is true, the other must be true too; rea-son-ing: big word meaning puttin' on yer thinkin' cap to figure out stuff).

Unfortunately (un-for-tu-nate-ly: big word meaning too bad), the preceding (pre-ced-ing: meaning what I just said) is an oversimplification (o-ver-sim-pli-fi-ca-tion: big word meaning I left out the hard stuff to help a slow poke like you follow it). You see, the term His-pan-ic can refer not only to na-tion-al-i-ty, but also to ethnicity (eth-ni-ci-ty: big word meaning being part of a group of people with common characteristics (char-ac-ter-is-tics: big word meaning features) which may include race and nationality, but other characteristics as well. That may be the source of your confusion (con-fu-sion: big word meaning why you don't have no clue).

Interesting that you chose images of bricks and baseballs for your nonsensical non-sequitur. I can see how you might think they are the same thing. Based on the cognitive disconnect you've demonstrated repeatedly on this thread, I'd say you are either Reginald Denny or took one too many inside fastballs to the head.


976 posted on 04/07/2004 9:20:45 AM PDT by William Wallace (“There will be a happy ending: the chaos let loose by Roe will give way to restored justice.”)
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To: William Wallace
The word Hispanic (His-pan-ic: big word meaning of or related to Spain or Spanish speaking countries) refers to a person's nationality (na-tion-al-i-ty: big word meaning what country or part of the world your family comes from).

What country? What nationality? It doesn't look to me that's how that word is used.

985 posted on 04/07/2004 7:17:20 PM PDT by FITZ
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