Re: [OT] Liberal Weeny Spouting off....Was VSAM doubt

Pete Dashwood wrote:
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> This is one of the best responses I have ever seen in CLC.
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> more below...
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> "jce" <defaultuser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > "Peter Lacey" <lacey@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> Ron wrote:
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> >>>
> >>> First, I don't know how they teach English over there but this drives me
> >>> nuts! You do not have a "doubt", you have a "question". You doubt
> >>> something
> >>> that you think is untrue. You question something that you do not know.
> >>> You
> >>> do not know if a VSAM file can be a GDG, therefore you have a question.
> >>> If I told you a VSAM file has chocolate ice cream hidden in the index
> >>> you would doubt that it was the truth.
> >
> >> For heaven's sake - give him or her credit for effort! How would you
> >> get on in Hindi or Punjabi or whatever?
> >>

> Ron was unhappy about Praveen's use of 'doubt'. His comments were based on
> English usage and, although I wasn't personally annoyed, (I have no problem
> with Praveen using 'doubt' in the way he did, recognizing that English may
> not be his first language), I understand that Ron found it irritating and
> said so. If Ron had been commenting on a post by me or any other regular
> poster here who is of European ethnicity, it is extremely unlikely that
> Peter Lacey would have posted. (This is not to imply that Peter was wrong to
> post; he has as much right to post here as anybody. It is a public forum.)


Please don't impute motives or prejudices or politics to me in this
fashion. It wouldn't have mattered where the opiginal post came from, I
was angered by Ron's tone, his assumption of superiority, his "listen to
this and try to lesrn" approach - the whole method and mode of his
English lesson was unwarranted and insulting. And it was superfluous,
because he did give answers.

(The only reason I mentioned "Hindi or Punjabi or whatever" was because
the name "Praveen" resembles that of correspondents I have in Mumbai,
Bagalore, and other places in India).

PL
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