grimslade
Stylish Dinosaur
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If I have not made this clear enough, I think he is wrong about the historical origins, and I don't think his references support his point at all.
He started writing a long time ago that my interpretation of drape was all wrong, and that I am fool for being on the one hand Anglophiliac, and on the other a drapophiliac, when drape is not English. I noticed this but ignored it because he was posting it in places I no longer participate.
But when he brought it here and kept banging the drum over and over, I felt like I had a right to respond.
Suppose you were an author who made point X in a published source, and someone kept saying over and over that you were wrong, except according to everything you knew, HE was wrong. Would you feel obligated to stay silent until the end of time?
This is your manichean side coming out. You've had your say. He's had his. As I said, I think this thread has, remarkably enough, largely cleared the air about where the two of you are coming from. He is not calling you an idiot or saying that you are wrong any more--assuming arguendo that he did at some point in the past. He is saying that there is some support for his view of the historical uses of the term, and he has posted evidence to support that. Maybe Whife is an outlier, maybe your evidences are also sufficient. So be it. I don't get the feeling it's personal with Sator, although I don't speak for him and don't claim to know his mind. I can only judge his public posts. He is an avid student of history, and wanted to clarify a point of history. He had enough respect for your study of the subject to seek to clarify it with you, and to show you his sources to see what both of you could learn about it.
It is always a bit difficult to publicly learn something new about something on which you are a published authority, even if ultimately that new thing does not fundamentally call into question what you already know and have written. But you shouldn't conclude from that that he is calling you out, even if it feels like it. It's natural for it to feel like it, but that's OK. I find, myself, that publishing things is a great way to learn new things. People come to you and say, "that was really interesting, but did you know this..." and it leads to future discovers and a more complete understanding.