"Huh? I'm just going to assume, since the poster's name is Sridhar..."

I stopped reading after this, since I understand that you cant complete such a sentence into something which will make any sense. Yes, we can all use a reading/re-reading of PGs article on how to make/present an argument.

Well, perhaps that came off differently than I meant it. His article came across as rambling and incoherent, and I was saying that may be due to English not being his primary language rather than a poor thought process. It's very hard to argue in a second tongue. Much harder than simply conversing.

Nonetheless, I'm appalled that someone can cut my sentence in half, argue with an entirely different statement than the one I made, and get voted up that far.

So you're appalled when someone excerpts your own words in a threaded discussion, with the full quotation available above the excerpt, but you're fine with putting quotation marks around completely bogus "loose translations" of what other people say so you can argue against straw men instead of their actual statements? To quote you, if I may, "that is the worst logic I've ever seen."