Trolls, or trolling behaviour ...how do we deal with these isues as an online community?

We call 'em YeahButts

or in canajun, yabuts

(it doesn't apply to "our" bunny, but I've used the term yabut rabbit IRL to describe one of these characters)

so when they are wrong nail them...humiliate them. These kind are not a problem, and not relevant to this thread.

Yes, that's the exact meaning of the term you used, "besserwisser". To that I added the phrase "[and] what's better for YOU" - the second part refers not to just knowing everything better than YOU do, it means telling YOU what YOU should be doing, as well. A plain "besserwisser" doesn't try to take over YOUR life to make it comply with HIS ideas.The tea vs coffee refers to the titles on the little shop in the cartoon - here it is again - it's really very funny:

It is funny

Here's a statement that raises the hackles. It's not the substance but the style. I would have included an "I think" or IMO to make it less abrasive. But I understand that that's hawkeye's style.

there are still a good number of us around a2k who are not by nature deferential and soothing. It would be a good idea for the rest of you to get over it. At some point you need to take people as they are, not try to change them. Equally or more a problem is the modern tendency to obsess about style and other superficial stuff...This is a huge problem with moderns, who routinely fail to learn the value of things, learn how to sensibly prioritize.

It is funny.......

It's not your place to decide or announce what is or is not relevant to this thread or any other.

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Is that the kind of response you'd prefer?

I'm sure many of us can accommodate that. I'm certainly comfortable with it.

Sorry if I pissed you off hawkeye(deferential and soothing)
But you made my point. What we're talking about IMO is using social skills to post graciously on A2K...It can't be so galling, can it?

It is funny. And your definition of the word "besserwisser" is more like it's used and what it means in German.

Good word besserwisser. Hadn't heard (or seen) it used in quite a while. There's a similar word in Latvian -- viszinis-- which, translated literally, means 'the all-knowing one.'

i prefer Pisswasser

You never heard me say I know any Scandinavian languages. I do note that in an example of courtesy habitual to you but somewhat alien to me you, also, refrained from pointing out to Saab that in German the word should be CAPITALIZED . Nuance and finesse are French words, wonder why

When I use the word 'Spanish', I capitalize it. In Spanish speaking countries, they do not. It's just a local convention.

capitalization is for people who can't be bothered to be lazy



wait, what?

Very true, and there's no capitalization of adjectives in German either, not just in "espagnol", as well as in Italian and French - the point here is that Walter copied my spelling on purpose, and I copied the original poster's spelling on purpose, both of us doing it out of courtesy, but both of us sticklers for accuracy punctiliously including the original poster's spelling in quotation marks. I don't know if Walter knows any Scandinavian languages - I certainly don't - but the word is German, meaning literally "know-it-all" (not "omniscient", or "Allwissend", which is a different word, used for gods) and it's a noun - that's subject to Walter's opinion btw, if he thinks it's really an adjective being used as a noun, what he says goes

Massagatto's back
http://able2know.org/topic/143118-1
Gentlemen, to your horses.

Stay away until I get there - the fastest horse-riding event ever (musically at any rate) is the beginning of the third act of Die Walkuere.

Wow, that ad is from the video game I'm playing right now.

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