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Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
That fails on so many levels. Where to start?

😞

You could start on explaining how you think The pen is mightier than the sword? (By all accounts).

You use words, and I'll use a sword lets see who wins that battle. 😉

-VR

Originally posted by @very-rusty
You could start on explaining how you think The pen is mightier than the sword? (By all accounts).

You use words, and I'll use a sword lets see who wins that battle. 😉

-VR

you verbally dueling with the 3 time winner of the prose competition is like a mouse trying to eat a tiger

Originally posted by @apathist
Words are just words. Or are they?

To me it is how words are said that are key. The same sentence can have different meaning based on emphasis, body language, situation etc.

A conversation held on a building site, or in a lawyers chambers would have utterly different meaning.

Originally posted by @lemondrop
you verbally dueling with the 3 time winner of the prose competition is like a mouse trying to eat a tiger

NO, wrong again Gertrude. Saying the pen is mightier than the sword is like comparing a mouse trying to eat a tiger! 😛 😉 That is just plain stupid!!!



-VR

Originally posted by @paul-a-roberts
To me it is how words are said that are key. The same sentence can have different meaning based on emphasis, body language, situation etc.

A conversation held on a building site, or in a lawyers chambers would have utterly different meaning.

Unfortunately body language, situation, etc., etc., can not be seen in words.

-VR

Originally posted by @very-rusty
NO, wrong again Gertrude. Saying the pen is mightier than the sword is like comparing a mouse trying to eat a tiger! 😛 😉 That is just plain stupid!!!



-VR

"The pen is mightier than the sword" was first written by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839.

Take it up with him.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
"The pen is mightier than the sword" was first written by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839.

Take it up with him.

goad,

He didn't know what the hell he was talking about, too bad I can't tell him personally. Too bad I couldn't tell you personally, but at least you can see this he can not. Man probably never saw a sword if he thought the Pen was mightier! 😉

OH and when you are quoting someone else apparently you are suppose to give them credit when doing so, not after the fact. 😛 😉

-VR

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
"The pen is mightier than the sword" was first written by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839.

Take it up with him.

Would the modern version be, "the internet is mightier than the tank"?

Originally posted by @paul-a-roberts
Would the modern version be, "the internet is mightier than the tank"?

Probably so and he would still be wrong! 😉

-VR

Originally posted by @very-rusty
goad,

He didn't know what the hell he was talking about, too bad I can't tell him personally. Too bad I couldn't tell you personally, but at least you can see this he can not. Man probably never saw a sword if he thought the Pen was mightier! 😉

-VR

Why not have a genuine attempt to decipher his meaning? It might just alter you on a profound level. (Reflect perhaps on what has changed the world more, the written word or the bullet? )

Report back to us tomorrow.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Why not have a genuine attempt to decipher his meaning? It might just alter you on a profound level. (Reflect perhaps on what has changed the world more, the written word or the bullet? )

Report back to us tomorrow.

I'll reply to you now...The pen is not mightier than the sword, the word does not hurt more than a bullet. The President of the United States should not be tweeting sillyness at 3:00 a.m. he should be sleeping unless something major is happening.

Trumpster has made himself look bad on more than one occasion with words!!!

-VR

Originally posted by @very-rusty

OH and when you are quoting someone else apparently you are suppose to give them credit when doing so, not after the fact. 😛 😉

-VR[/b]

It is an 'extremely' famous quote that I thought every man and his dog was aware of, and I indicated so with the words 'By all accounts'.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
It is an 'extremely' famous quote that I thought every man and his dog was aware of, and I indicated so with the words 'By all accounts'.

You still didn't say the source so don't try and weasel your way out of it. Andy nailed me and I nailed you, nothing either of us can do about it now. 😛 😉

I also thought my quote was quite obvious to every man and his dog, apparently not to Andy! 😉

-VR

Originally posted by @very-rusty
You still didn't say the source so don't try and weasel your way out of it. Andy nailed me and I nailed you, nothing either of us can do about it now. 😛 😉

I also thought my quote was quite obvious to every man and his dog, apparently not to Andy! 😉

-VR

My source was 'my memory' (due to it being a quote/expression only you on the entire planet apparently hadn't come across).

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
The pen is mightier than the sword. (By all accounts).

Ay bro!