Claudius
Like Conte, I'm going to have to give up on this despite the situation being eminently winnable.
However, the onlookers will no doubt compliment my solid arguments to date, which have dragged my overall body of work along to almost make my point.
"Burnwinter was just about to make that point", they will say: "Burnwinter isn't the problem. Old man Burnsy has formed up this limited supply of words into exactly the best kind of argument we could reasonably have expected. We have to take into account the abridged dictionary he was using.
"In fact, given the quality of his work prior to suddenly quitting this thread in a huff, the best thing to do now would be to give Burnwinter a fat contract to try to win a different thread."