Post #386719 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jun 12, 2008 7:24 PM

OK, to backtrack a little (one last time before I bow out, I promise):

On 2008-06-12 03:41, woofmutt wrote:
Considering that even a person of obvious intelligence and the ability to make a sound argument is capable of completely misunderstanding and misconstruing a subject...

Woofmust, just in case this "person" you mention is supposed to be me, WHAT did I misunderstand and where did I misconstrue? You obviously used the term "narrow" the way I understood it, as you reiterated:

On 2008-06-12 08:02, woofmutt wrote:
The "narrow definition" would be any definition or boundaries used as an acid test to judge whether an artist's work is Tiki or not Tiki.

...meaning since I just happen to be the one around here who tried to define Tiki and nonTiki, you are calling my definition narrow, ---which (as I said earlier) I feel is totally misconstruing what my posts are saying. Soooo.... what did I misunderstand?

But compared to my good friend Grog's degree of misunderstanding of my efforts, you are being tame :) :

On 2008-06-12 07:25, GROG wrote:
Bigbro, GROG think maybe he is saying there is a "narrow definition of Tiki art" because according to you, the current artists are either basically copying what has been done before, or are missing the mark so far that their art can't be considered tiki art. If everybody is missing the mark so completely, then it must be a narrow definition.

WHERE the heck did I say anything like that, to that degree? Or wait, perhaps the above quote is just one of Grog's parodies? But no, I just read the other thread...
I am so shocked that what I am trying to say is SO misinterpreted, by good friends even, I am gonna cool it for a while...beaten by the curse of Babylon on this site, with people obviously speaking different languages, missing each other's points completely. Sigh.