>From: Julian and Jackie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Julian and Jackie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: DPP question
>Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:20:43 +0100
>
>Amy Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> >Hi, all,
> >
> >I have a male youngster born 3-11,
>
>A piece of advice.
>
>I presume you mean six weeks go and not six months ago. This is an
>international list and across most of the globe outside the US dates are
>always written day/month/year. For this reason it is usually best to
>write dates in full.
All right, I'll remember that. However, due to my limited US experience, I
am unaware of anyone in the gerbil community that considers a six month old
gerbil a "youngster." My apologies to "most of the globe," so different from
us utterly uncivilized Americans.
I'm sorry. I normally try not to get sarcastic here, and I am usually open
to suggestions. But honestly, I was interested in information about dark
pigment, not in a condescending lecture on the demographics of the GML.
One other thing, though - since this *is* an international list, and I am
apparently not from a region considered to be part of "most of the globe," I
try to tolerate different usage from other nationalities rather than
criticize or correct it. If I'm unclear on something, I ask for
clarification, which seems to me to be the more diplomatic thing to do.
Amy Hicks aka MScottMGP
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