Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
I still don't know these systems of Rob's including ARTT and whatever else they're called. I would like to see step by step instructions.
I'm also mystified that the AP critics know it so well.
See, this is the problem with deciding to parrot the language of someone who adopts specific lingo to aggrandize themselves. Mr. Mendelson didn't really mean "AP critics" here. He meant something along the lines of "APs who are critics of Singer." But because he decided to use one of Argentino's pet attempts at self-aggrandizement -- framing people who disagree with him as a lump group of "critics" -- Mr. Mendelson butchered clear meaning.
One could adopt a phrase other than "AP critics" here to describe those who don't agree with Argentino's systems. I mean, really, it's hard to get a plural on the word "supporter" for those systems. Slingshot would count, so that gets you to add the "s" to supporter, but even Mr. Mendelson has said he does not use the systems. Coach belly has never said that he does. Blackhole, an AP critic, has said he thinks the systems are junk. So one has to rely on slingshot to even get the people who advocate the Singer systems to a plural.
Alternative, and more accurate (Mr. Mendelson advocates accuracy) ways of describing the people who do NOT advocate for the Singer systems might be:
1) "People who know math."
2) "People who understand probability theory."
3) "Potentially everyone but Argentino and slingshot."
These phrases, if substituted for "the critics," are more accurate for the following reason. Saying "the critics" suggests that there are supporters, critics, and some mathematically neutral ground. There is no mathematically neutral ground containing arguments for and against. That simply is not the case. There is simply the systems and their barely-plural supporters, and there is everyone else.
In any event, "AP critics" was a very wrong phrase because it could just as easily (I think more likely) mean "critics of APs" rather than "APs who are critics of Singer." Think about how ridiculous it would be for me to say I think, without evidence, that humans descended from koala bears, and everyone who disagrees is "the critics." That's essentially the phraseology that Argentino tries to sell. He's got to bring in slingshot just to get to the plural of "supporter."