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Old 09-22-2008, 06:09 AM
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. . . He never said anything about thinking Churchill was a literary figure. I'm sure he knows exactly who he was. You've gone nuts and lost any credibility . . . .
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You mentioned sherlock holmes didn't you? I think he was referring to that. Churchill was shortened to "etc". Come on don't be daft he didn't indicate at all that churchill was fictional of course the guy knows who Churchill was. Apart from a couple idiots that were surveyed everyone knows who he was.
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Rather, he insults you by asserting that some article says some alleged survey says that Britons in general were mistaken about literary figures, etc.
From http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etcetera (affectionately referred to my me as the big red dic. ) :

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Main Entry: et·cet·era
Pronunciation: \et-ˈse-tə-rə, -ˈse-trə also it-, ÷ek-, ÷ik-\
Function: noun
Date: 1597
1: a number of unspecified additional persons or things
2plural : unspecified additional items : odds and ends
So, clearly I was not just referring to literary figures like Sherlock Holmes. Rather I used "etc." to represent the logical continuation of the series of examples used in the cited survey, which I specifically referred to in the same sentence.

Whatever

Also "tu quoque" is Latin for "You, too" or "You, also" - but it is used to mean an accusation of hypocrisy, which I believe was the intent in this case.
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