I appreciate your answer. I appreciate the simple fact that you took time to write me. I never said that my freedom of speech was restricted. I reacted to the spirit of your mail "lets talk about mathematics, lets talk about important things. we are mathematicians, etc etc" I quote: "The longer I have lived the more I have come to suspect solemnity and to see in it - not always but frequently - a cloak for a humbug (Bertrand Russell)" May be I am hypersensitive concerning solemnity. Sorry, e.d. Peter Selinger wrote:

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Eduardo J. Dubuc wrote:

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I do not appreciate that a controversy about terminology be dismissed by derision by saying

"thanks for trying to move the discussion away from terminology and back to actual mathematical matters".

This kind of solemnity makes me shit !!

No need to move away from terminology, nobody is forbidding you to discuss mathematics by discussing terminology, it is not one thing or the other.

Dear Eduardo,

Ouch. In fairness, I did not forbid you to discuss terminology. I simply thanked another person for taking the discussion in another direction. You have already sent 12 public messages on this subject, so I don't believe you can fairly claim that your freedom of speech has been restricted, especially by me.

Best wishes, -- Peter