Ok, thanks Joe. I now understand what you meant. It is not what you said though, is it? Your phrase illustrates the prime trait of the extremist indicates, to me, that one can spot an extremist by looking for this 'prime trait'. It's like profiling and I am sure you understand what a risky business that can be.

We may now be talking semantics but it is important that we use unambiguous phrases on a chat forum that relies soley on words. I have often re-phrased an earlier poorly crafted phrase with one closer to my intention only to be accused of 'squirming'. I will continue to do it though as I understand that not everyone is on the same wavelength and I may need to try a few times before I convey my meaning to everyone accurately.

Glad you can do the same. Eventually:-)

DtG

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Fixed. ----mudelf