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Re: Names of things.
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lugnet.loc.au
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Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:06:02 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Richie, I think this will be my last response to you. If Ben chooses to
> > respond I will respond to that, but I am now starting to wonder if you're
> > deliberately misinterpreting what I am saying, for whatever reason.
> >
> > Let's go back to what Ben said, shall we? To wit:
> >
> > "The "Dark Shark" [what most people mistakenly refer to as the "Black Seas
> > Barracuda"]:"
> >
> > Note that there is no qualification about Australia in this statement.
> > Merely that "most people" are "mistaken" when the use BSB.
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> And note that I almost entirely post in .loc.au and that this was the forum
> used, and the message was intended for an Aussie audience. After all, I
> COULD have posted in .general if I was arguing with the rest of the world.
Noted. However qualification still would have been helpful. Saying "most
people", without qualification, even in an Australia specific forum, is
hopelessly Australia centric.
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> [As a side note, do you mean that when someone posts in .marketplace [or
> .loc.us...] about a S@H or "TARGET" sale that is on, then it applies to
> everyone, or are we supposed to assume that without a country, it's only US,
> and that the poster should have the same sort of questions levelled at them?
> (ie. why are you saying this is world-wide when my local store doesn't have
> it?)]
You're preaching to the choir, I've always agreed with you and have
supported you in public in the past. But using this argument when you
yourself are not properly qualifying your remarks (even in a local forum)
dilutes it if you use it again in the market hierarchy. And that would be a
shame, because you're right about it.
> Benjamin Whytcross
> [wanting Lego to keep using the names they originally gave sets in various
> countries instead of automatically using one from a country that has used
> incorrect set numbers for sets (after all, the company is Danish, therefore
> sets produced there have the correct set number (set 928 for example...in
> addition, the brick on the side confirms the set number.)]
++Lar [Wanting LEGO to use *no names at all* on boxes and to use one set of
names globally, or at least across all english speaking countries... after
all the company is a multinational, (which just happens to be headquartered
in Denmark) that uses English (of whatever variant) as a working language...
but who agrees about set number inconsistencies being a bad thing]
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| (...) And note that I almost entirely post in .loc.au and that this was the forum used, and the message was intended for an Aussie audience. After all, I COULD have posted in .general if I was arguing with the rest of the world. [As a side note, do (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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