Re: Ad hominems

On Feb 25, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Noel Chiappa 
<jnc(_at_)mercury(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu> wrote:
> and 'how old are you' (as a quick
> example off the top of my head, not necessarily the greyest I could come up
> with if I spent more time thinking about it) is somewhere in the middle..
Actually, if you think a bit more about this you might conclude that it's not 
in the middle at all.   It's almost always pejorative, whether the implied age 
is young or old.