Quote:if you don’t want to stand behind that claim “you heard” then retract it.

Tossing it out there, and saying 'I heard' is *not* 'arguing' for a position. In fact, it shows a willingness to be shown to the contrary. Leave it to you to change the tenor of the offering and the verb tp coincide with your predisposition.

Perhaps if you werent tone deaf as to the difference between 'arguing' and stating 'I heard', you wouldnt now be be on a fing crusade to paint the 'I heard' as to some major felony action like you do above.

I am sorry that: a) you do not recognize the difference; and b) now think that putting that out there as a 'well for better or for worse this is what I heard' is such an affront to everything. Bummer.

The only thing that it is an apparent affront to is *your* inability to note what 'I heard' connotes, and perhaps *your* internal ideal that no one should *ever* have the temerity to put out the horrible action of noting something as 'I heard'.

The funny thing is that have you noted that the only one 'arguing' about that issue is you? Incessantly might I add....