srinath wrote on 01/03/13 at 20:23:15:LANCER wrote on 01/03/13 at 16:24:36:srinath wrote on 01/03/13 at 06:53:36:Your comments are pretty appropriately countering mine ... I think its more of your perception than actually being so.
I'm not from around here so to speak, so it could be that too.
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Srinath.
Where are you from ? You wouldn't believe if I said california would you ?
OK I did spend a lot of time there, but India for 1/2 my life. US for the second 1/2. PA, WA, CA, Canadia, NC etc are places I spent atleast 1 year ...
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Srinath.
Permission to butt in !
Srinath, I believe I see Lancer's point.
Regardless your excellent command of the English language, the message Lancer (and others) is trying to get across is that you thik in a different way from them, and your perceptions are different, so your comments
may offend someone...
... not because you are wrong, but because you are
different.
I believe you did your high school in India, and emigrated to the US... possibly after graduating?
Mind you, exactly the same applies to me.Even though I spent a good portion of my school years in the US (Fairfax Co., VA) I did my high school years in Italy, and that is the time when one forges his character and the fundamentals of his ethical, political and social views.
That is when you create your individual points of reference for life to come.
When one suggested "you write too much", I had to smile at myself because I make exactly the same mistake
(see, here we go again !

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It is a matter of culture.
You and I are Old World, whatever you may think or however you may feel.
We thrive on discussion over smantics.The rest of the Forum Members are Anglosaxon,
one thought, one word.
It is like the difference between Julius Caesar (read his "Gallic Wars", he summed up Gaul in 5 (five!) words) and Seneca, the philosopher who could rant endlessy on the semantics of the subtleties of grammar...
I will save his views on ethics for another time...

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Maurizio