06-23-2016, 01:38 PM
'admin' pid='72658' datel Wrote:OK, Admin, but you do recognize a teachable moment when it occurs. Those interested should read the history of Agatha Christie's novel, film titled And Then There Were None. Personally, I consider rather boorish anyone lecturing anyone else on his use of language. The reader can decide for himself to be offended or not.Let's give this issue a rest. I'm sure AU is right (I mean he did prove that himself, as it happens), but I'm also pretty sure Aussie didn't mean to insult. Global communication is difficult at times as people with different backgrounds interpret things differently and use language differently (the case of Uruguayan footballer Luis Suarez comes to mind using language which in his country is pretty common but in the English Premier League wasn't acceptable at all..). Let's leave it at that.

