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Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature

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john wrote:

> Thomas said: (I use an IPhone, usually-
> no attributes)

Your _attribution lines_ are probably inappropriate because you are using 
the defective mobile Web interface of Google Groups, and you are not 
correcting the mistakes in its defaults.  Try the NewsTap Lite app instead.

> <>
> Grammatically-correct is one thing.
               ^
I think there should not be a hyphen here …

> Awkward-sounding and rarely-used is
                             ^
… and here.

> another.
> I'm not saying I don't enjoy reading your
> words. I do.
> But there are many turns-of-phrase that
> are only used in a book or essay setting-
> not in person-to-person communications-
> that tend to make even a foreign-speaker
> as erudite as you sound....well....foreign.

I am considering the fact that this is an *international* *scientific* 
newsgroup.  My readers are not necessarily speakers of English as first 
language, and I find clarity of language particularly important in a 
scientific context.  Therefore, I am using formal language here and in other 
international Usenet newsgroups.  For example, you might have observed that 
I am avoiding contractions and slang.

As for sounding foreign, there is not much I can do about it: English *is* a 
foreign language for me, even though I use it daily.  I welcome all *well-
founded* corrections that native speakers can provide; but preferably, since 
these are not newsgroups on the English language, via private e-mail.

> But delightfully-so!!
> I agree with Mahipal. Love your posts!
> Keep it up!

Thank you.

> Come drink Molson Canadian
> beer with us if you and he come visit me
> in Canada, someday.

I will consider it.


PointedEars
-- 
Q: Why is electricity so dangerous?  
A: It doesn't conduct itself.

(from: WolframAlpha)

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    Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-15 22:20 +0200
      Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Euclid Baumann <eubaum@parallelnetwork.org> - 2015-10-15 20:29 +0000
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  Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-15 22:09 +0200
    Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Euclid Baumann <eubaum@parallelnetwork.org> - 2015-10-15 20:25 +0000
      Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-15 23:36 +0200
        Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Euclid Baumann <eubaum@parallelnetwork.org> - 2015-10-15 21:46 +0000
          Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 15:11 -0700
            Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Euclid Baumann <eubaum@parallelnetwork.org> - 2015-10-15 22:15 +0000
              Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 15:22 -0700
              Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 15:23 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-16 09:18 +0200
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                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 10:09 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-16 20:24 +0200
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 07:17 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature "Efftard K. Donglemeier" <invalid@example.com> - 2015-10-17 09:10 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 09:23 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 12:35 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 13:21 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 20:25 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 05:43 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 06:42 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 07:13 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 07:26 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 07:43 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 19:11 -0400
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 06:57 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 17:11 -0700
                Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 03:06 -0400
    Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 13:30 -0700
      Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-16 14:37 +0200
        Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 06:18 -0700
          Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-16 16:54 +0200
          Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature jay moseley <jaymoseley@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-16 10:27 -0700
  Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-10-15 16:37 -0700
  Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-10-16 15:26 +0200
    Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Euclid Baumann <eubaum@parallelnetwork.org> - 2015-10-16 13:37 +0000
  Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-10-17 11:08 -0700
  Re: Giant alien 'megastructures' against Spacetime Curvature "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 12:42 -0700
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