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Thread #145956   Message #3387358
Posted By: GUEST,Charles Macfarlane
07-Aug-12 - 08:01 PM
Thread Name: Its why people dont go to folk clubs....
Subject: RE: Its why people dont go to folk clubs....
> From: GUEST,raymond greenoaken
>
> I understood what Mr Blandiver was saying without any difficulty.

Can you be certain of that? Perhaps, consciously or subconsciously, you put your own meaning to it? The trouble is with any statement of no, little, or ill-defined meaning is that it can mean just about anything that anybody wants it to, and will mean different things, often wildly different things, to different people; thus it fails as a means of communication of a single idea.

> From: Richard Bridge
>
> There is less in there than meets the eye.

And that's really the point. It reads suspiciously like someone using big words with the aim of sounding impressive, without actually having anything useful to say.