Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net From: "James Wilkinson Sword" Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.cellular-phone-tech Subject: Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 19:24:30 +0100 Organization: ~ Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <6gcldcdin55n117mpf15tmeuln0l4b1rm1@4ax.com> <5uDCA.170070$kx.54173@fx33.iad> <9bf5echtr6lm79c18tk8gn4610k38c7k3m@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com alt.privacy.anon-server:58527 comp.os.linux.advocacy:406871 comp.sys.mac.system:103647 alt.comp.os.windows-10:38235 alt.cellular-phone-tech:454 On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 22:27:20 +0100, Char Jackson wrote: > On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 18:09:07 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword" > wrote: > >> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:37:45 +0100, Wolf K wrote: >> >>> However, if your persistence in holding to your view that "double >>> double" is inherently ambiguous is an honest expression of your theory >>> of language, and not mere pigheadedness, then your theory of language is >>> wrong, and your education is incomplete. >> >> You seem to think every customer must have knowledge of the restaurant chain. If I go to eat something, I want to just ask for the food I want, not learn what they serve there. Each item of food should be described properly, in plain English. > > It is described properly, in plain English, on the menu. You seem to > think that you're somehow required to use the slang that other customers > use. If you aren't sure what something means, just stick to the menu. > I'm surprised I had to point that out to you. I thought the staff were using it. > Somehow, as you were growing up, you seem to have missed a lot of the > basics. I don't eat in fast food premises. -- A friend of mine suffers from verdigris. Goes green when looking down from a height!