Re: Radio trailers for DAB

John wrote:
> DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
>
>>> I went to comprehensive school and Latin wasn't taught there, but
>>> thanks to Samuel Johnson's wonderful invention, I was able to look
>>> it up all by myself. QED.
>>
>>
>> The point Richard made was that if someone is capable of reading a
>> broadsheet paper then they should be familiar with "sic". So I'd
>> dispute that you've proved his point, and I've never disputed that it
>> is possible for someone to look words up in dictionaries.
>>
>> I think it's really a case of what people read; until I went to
>> university I read very, very little. When I went to uni I read lots
>> and lots and lots, but it was all text books, where you rarely come
>> across the word.
>>
>> And you can be capable of reading a broadsheet without actually
>> reading one. Do you dispute that?
>
> It is not a word which is often used in engineering therefore you
> would have little reason to use it, the same goes for many other
> words and the use of those words. Only a pedantic fool would go
> around sneering on this newsgroup when you misuse them, make a typo
> or make a spelling mistake. Just goes to show the man should *NOT* be
> a teacher.


Very, very true. You can just picture him in the class-room now, can't
you... Gordon Bennett.


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