"Don and IB - you've again distorted what I've said, as you both distorted "Engrish frute" when describing a recorder made in Japan. (But your second post, IB, is fair enough.) And, Don, to use a cricket/baseball analogy, I'd like to think I do play each ball on it's merits and have given credit where due – even when someone has been extremely nasty elsewhere."

David, referring to the "Engrish frute" pun, go back to the post in which it was originally used and refresh your memory. You've either lost the thread or never understood it in the first place.

As to the "cricket/baseball analogy," what in blazes are you talking about?

And once again you wave your four technical certificates and your degree in humanities around. You could have forty technical certificates and a degree in every field in the university's catalog and still not be sufficiently educated to produce anything worthy of publication. The purpose of formal education is to teach one how to learn, not just to stuff your head full of data. As you are getting the certificate or the degree, that's when your real education should begin. And if it doesn't continue after you receive the diploma, then the diploma is as worthless as last week's newspaper.

Don Firth