How Would You Feel…?

…if someone called you old-fashioned?
Pleased?
Insulted?
doing math at Stony Brook
Or would you launch into a complicated equation involving what the word means to you, what you think it means to them, and how well each of you knows the other – or thinks they know the other – and what each might therefore think the word is likely to be taken as meaning?

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