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daniel_the_smith wrote:it makes it quite hard to figure out what I've read and haven't.

Doesn't the forum track what you have read and what you haven't? Or does phpbb have problems with renamed/moved threads?

Li Kao wrote:

daniel_the_smith wrote:it makes it quite hard to figure out what I've read and haven't.

Doesn't the forum track what you have read and what you haven't? Or does phpbb have problems with renamed/moved threads?

depends on how its implemented, but moved threads tend to reset the read/unread flag.

I don't read or post here as often as I did on GD, but I have not seen a need for or an instance of moderation. That seems to tell me that there is nothing wrong.

As for John Fairbairn, being bilingual in English and American I have no trouble with his posts. For those of you who do I am sure there are automated translators available to convert from English into American.

DrStraw wrote:As for John Fairbairn, being bilingual in English and American I have no trouble with his posts.

What about us, whose language is the most common in the world: Bad English?

tj86430 wrote:

DrStraw wrote:As for John Fairbairn, being bilingual in English and American I have no trouble with his posts.

What about us, whose language is the most common in the world: Bad English?

Unfortunately, I am not trilingual so I cannot help there.

Dr. Straw, indulge my curiousity. Are your references to being bilingual in American and British English a joke? I've never felt like I got your tone or the potential humor well enough to say.

hyperpape wrote:Dr. Straw, indulge my curiousity. Are your references to being bilingual in American and British English a joke? I've never felt like I got your tone or the potential humor well enough to say.

Also, I should add that your views about the word 'doctor' make me hesitant to try and predict what you think.

hyperpape wrote:Also, I should add that your views about the word 'doctor' make me hesitant to try and predict what you think.

Now on that one there is no doubt. A doctor is a teacher: look at the root of the word. Most physicians don't care one whit about teaching their patients. In the UK you don't even need a doctoral degree to practice medicine but they still call themselves "doctor". I will concede that physicians in the US have to have doctoral degrees but I am offended by the fact that most people, and almost all the mainstream media, reserve the use of the word "doctor" for medical practioners. Even though you would not guess it from the mess they have got the country in, both Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke have PhDs in Economics, but how many times have you heard them referred to as Dr. Greenspan and Dr. Bernanke? The use of the word as a teacher has been around since the middle ages but its use as a medical professional has only been around for a couple of hundred years.

I don't know why I should be impressed by the root--I just don't think it's that essential to reference. In fact, I suspect that your type of reasoning would have baffling consequences if applied across the board.

DrStraw wrote:

hyperpape wrote:Also, I should add that your views about the word 'doctor' make me hesitant to try and predict what you think.

Now on that one there is no doubt. A doctor is a teacher: look at the root of the word. Most physicians don't care one whit about teaching their patients. In the UK you don't even need a doctoral degree to practice medicine but they still call themselves "doctor". I will concede that physicians in the US have to have doctoral degrees but I am offended by the fact that most people, and almost all the mainstream media, reserve the use of the word "doctor" for medical practioners. Even though you would not guess it from the mess they have got the country in, both Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke have PhDs in Economics, but how many times have you heard them referred to as Dr. Greenspan and Dr. Bernanke? The use of the word as a teacher has been around since the middle ages but its use as a medical professional has only been around for a couple of hundred years.

Ah, good old Dr Straw... Don't you know that language changes, that it evolves? The use of the word doctor as "teacher, instructor," is "now rare" according to the OED. As a doctor of medicine, the OED gives the earliest occurrence as 1377. Chaucer used it as "Docture of Phesike." It comes from that: a learned person in a field who is capable of practicing or teaching.

Let us also cite Shakespeare, in The Merry Wives of Windsor: "Shall I loose my Doctor? No: hee giues me the Potions and the Motions."

Yes, I'm a word geek; I even have a paper copy of the OED...

this post is getting of topic

Where is the moderator to put us all straight again ?

but more concrete. I like Johns posts very much.
I always want to put them into sensei's straight away. But always forget to ask permission and then Cannot find them anymore.


About Moderation

I have myself no problems with moderation, and i sometimes did ak to move treads from one forum to another forum.
What i do miss is:
- an indication that the thread is moved (at the old forum)
- an indication at the new forum that the post is comming from another forum.

I think it is all just a bit teething problem I am happy with the forum

willemien wrote:...
What i do miss is:
- an indication that the thread is moved (at the old forum)
- an indication at the new forum that the post is comming from another forum...

Those are good points. I can't see any downside to them. I'll post this in the mod area where we all will see it.

John Fairbairn wrote:

My only request is to reduce the influence of British English on this forum.

OK, I'll leave if you want. Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Ease up, I was being facetious, and I am not a moderator.

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