Hi Marcus, nice to see a fellow Finn on the list!
I think the tone of communications issues have been mostly dealt with, but I'll just add some comments below. Marcus Sundman wrote: > "Brian Moseley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "utterly useless" > > Uh.. but since I never organize my past showing mostly the past _IS_ > utterly useless for me. How is stating this fact belittling or > confrontational? I believe this is just a bad choice of expression on Marcus' part. Just looking at a dictionary, "utterly" seems like a perfectly valid word to use. However, it can come across as showing contempt. I don't think that was Marcus' intent. A proper professional expression would have been "completely", so let's just mentally make the replacement. The same can be applied to some of the other expressions. But not for moron; that is still bad form even if you have to look up the word from dictionary. So let this be a reminder to us all that we have people participating from various cultures and language backgrounds, and what at first might seem insulting could in fact be due to the fact that dictionaries don't always carry the nuances of expressions. It is still ok to point out bad forms of communications, but please give the benefit of doubt due to language barriers. Here's hoping *I* did not write insultingly, being a non-native English speaker myself... Thanks, -- Heikki Toivonen
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