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Old 29-June-2002, 09:33 PM
M_Welander M_Welander is offline
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I was right - this was fun.

I have merely one small thought here. Please don't be offended, JayUtah - I think you're doing a wonderful job and I have learned a great deal during my time here. But there's just one little thing I've been thinking about in your answers to comicdave. I mean no disrespect, JayUtah, and I realize this *might* have something to do with English not being my native language, but I *think* you perhaps might be using a slightly too advanced language for comicdave to understand.

I mean, it is by now clear to most of us that comicdave is either slightly less intelligent, or significantly less educated than most people (and possibly both). Because of that, I was thinking that perhaps comicdave might in some way find your answers easier to understand if you perhaps sometimes used a slightly less advanced terminology in them.

For example, I know, and I'm sure 99% of the people here know, what "azimuth" means. But I doubt comicdave knows, so perhaps you could have said "the angle along the horizon" or something similary descriptive instead, so he could more easily understand.

Please don't take this as criticism, JayUtah, it is merely a suggestion, and believe me, I understand perfectly well why you choose to use a short precise word instead of a longer, inprecise sentece to describe somthing. I just think we have to remember here that we are dealing with a person (comicdave, that is) who is not entirely capable of understanding basic written text, and we might just have to compensate for his lack of understanding when we talk to him.

Well, that was just my thought. Feel free to disregard it - I usually don't have any problem myself with your language level.
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