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Old Mar 27th, 2004, 12:18 PM       
prox·y Â*Â*
n. pl. prox·ies

1. A person authorized to act for another; an agent or substitute.
2. The authority to act for another.
3. The written authorization to act in place of another.


Why in the world would you post a deffinition that clearly shows you use the word incorrectly. Is this your way of actually admitting you're wrong, or do you, even with the deffnition right in front of you, not understand that you are using the phrase wrong? Why do you keep beggig to have your nose rubbed in this? Not knowing the meanings of words is no big crime and isn't your main problem. It's your arrogance and overreaching coupled with your insistence that you are right that makes you look so damn stupid.

By Proxy means SOMEONE ELSE DOING SOMETHING IN YOUR PLACE or DOING SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE ELSE WITH THEIR AUTHORITY. It means theree are always two people involved. You CAN NOT do something for yourself BY PROXY. In addition, a situation cannot do something for you BY PROXY becuase a situation is not a person. That covers the ways you almost always use the phrase.

Now lets look at the way you used it most recently.

"I can't prove you are wrong, so I will say something stupid to make you look stupid by proxy."

Since you are pretedning to be me in this situation, I = Max, and you = Vinth. First of all my saying something stupid doesn't make you look stupid, unless it's true, like when I quote you, which is actually you sounding stupid anyway. But leave that aside.

You're doing allright in that you have two agents, Max and Vinth. But in a proxy relationship, there is agreement. It's by design, it's arranged. I can cast your vote in a committe if I have proxy. I can act as an agentfor your mortgage if you've signed papers saying so, or make a decision for you if you're in a coma, if we hve proof of an agreement. Proxy is about partnership, and it's essentially a legal term. There's no 'proxy' about me making you look stupid.

It's not the right word. It's in the ballpark, maybe, but it' wrong, and this is why you're a bad writer. If I want to tell you about a horse, and I right 'the kind of really big dog cowboys ride', people will know what I man, but I'll still be wrong.

If I want to say that you are a knee jerk right wing republican but what I say is "Vinth allides himself for all intense purposes with the Conservators" people will know what I was trying to say, but they'll also know I was wrong and I should have just used words I knew or LOOKED THE WORDS UP.

And if I looked the words up, I'd look at the meanings, look back t my sentecne and make sure it actually meant what I'd intended before bragging about how I'd made someone else look stupid or saying "Screw what it means, if I asked 100 people they'd say have same accuration!"

"Now that I have shown yet AGAIN that I used a word in the correct sense, "

The word AGAIN would mean you've done it before, and you haven't yet, not even this time. Stop living in a fantasy. On no occasion have I said you've used a word ir phrase incorrectly UNLESS YOU HAVE! You just used the word AGAIN wrong you retard.

And I don't mean retard not in the literal medical sense. I'm just insulting you.
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