XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 8/1/2020 4:23 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   > On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 07:35:18 +0100, Pimpom  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 7/21/2020 2:06 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:27:26 +0100, Pimpom  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 7/13/2020 6:06 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >>>>> On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 05:53:29 +0100, Pimpom  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> My bad. This is the first time I heard that the mil is not used   
   >>>>>> as the unit for .001" in the UK. (I'm *not* an American).   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> If you're not American why did you say "my bad"?  Your bad what?  Finish   
   the sentence!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> So now you're a grammar Nazi? This after I (and others) spent   
   >>>> considerable time and effort patiently explaining to you a   
   >>>> concept that many/most readers here probably already knew, and   
   >>>> would quickly grasp if they didn't. Sheesh!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And is there a law against non-Americans using an American   
   >>>> expression? FYI I'm none of these: American, British, Australian   
   >>>> or Canadian - or a citizen of any other country where English is   
   >>>> natively spoken.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's not grammar, it's missing off an entuire word, the one with the   
   meaning in it!   
   >>>   
   >> It took you more than a week to think up that comeback?   
   >   
   > You think all I do is reply in here?   
   >   
   >> Anyway, good luck with your self-appointed job of reforming the usage of   
   >> American slang which, by the way, has pervaded much of the world   
   >> outside the US.   
   >   
   > It's not said in the UK.  We can speak our own language correctly.   
   >   
      
   You speak for all of the UK? My my, what delusions of grandeur.   
   And who are you to try to enforce the exclusive use of British   
   English in a newsgroup?   
      
   >> And what does "entuire" mean? Blimey! Skitt's Law, you know, old boy.   
   >   
   > Learn the difference between a typo and stupidity.   
   >   
   >>> It's like saying "Today I went out and did some".   
   >>>   
   >> That would be quite acceptable if the context were known.   
   >   
   > Why make your conversations like jpeg encoding?   
   >   
      
   Do you realise that that sentence itself is a condensed form?   
   Still Skitt's Law.   
      
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