O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[Andy_Faber]

If you’re going to make slightly snide comments like that it may be worth pointing out that at least both MA and I can spell ‘naivety’, ...and I haven’t a clue what your previous post is meant to mean.

And strange how you criticise my spelling yet fail to do the same with your allies, I haven’t noticed you correcting MA’s idiosyncratic real noun habits.

[ramAnag]

And strange how you criticise my spelling yet fail to do the same with your allies, I haven’t noticed you correcting MA’s idiosyncratic real noun habits.

I only criticised in response to your own rather ridiculous and entirely unprovoked attack, and I can honestly say that I have never seen the word ‘naivety’ written in the way you wrote it. An American affectation perhaps and maybe still in need of accents.

‘Allies’? Is that really how you see things? How very 3rd form. I find that most of what MA says makes sense...same with Swale (except when the anger takes over), mac and one or two others - even you on occasions...simple as that. But...`Allies’? You’ll be talking about `bestest, bestest friends ever’ next.

[Andy_Faber]

I only criticised in response to your own rather ridiculous and entirely unprovoked attack, and I can honestly say that I have never seen the word ‘naivety’ written in the way you wrote it. An American affectation perhaps and maybe still in need of accents.

Very honest of you. Not an American affectation, Naive is an Anglicised French word, as is naïveté. Correct it needed an accent, my steam driven phone won’t allow accents. So one way or another we were both wrong

[swaledale]

Very honest of you. Not an American affectation, Naive is an Anglicised French word, as is naïveté. Correct it needed an accent, my steam driven phone won’t allow accents. So one way or another we were both wrong

Well **** me sideways!!

[MadAmster]

So, Andy thinks I'm a little naive for thinking that employers should pay their staff a decent, liveable wage. If that is true then I'm perfectly happy to be seen to be less aware, less knowledgeable or less "whatever you think is the best antonym for naive".

[ramAnag]

Seeing as I’m apparently tarnished with the same naivety ‘brush’...perhaps Andy is confusing it with ‘decency’ or ‘idealism’ and I’m never going to apologise for that.

Beyond that...I’m puzzled...in your original post, AF, you spelt the word ‘naivete’ and yet in the quoted post it appeared as ‘naivite’. I’m not sure how that can happen.
You also appear to be able to edit a post over three and a half hours after posting (2949 posted at 6.42 and edited at 10.15). The rest of us appear to get about ten minutes. Is that just ‘Moderator’s privilege’ or is there some other reason?

[MadAmster]

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Apparently you can replace Toraidhe with Torai without losing meaning. Not many people know that.

[Andy_Faber]

Seeing as I’m apparently tarnished with the same naivety ‘brush’...perhaps Andy is confusing it with ‘decency’ or ‘idealism’ and I’m never going to apologise for that.

Beyond that...I’m puzzled...in your original post, AF, you spelt the word ‘naivete’ and yet in the quoted post it appeared as ‘naivite’. I’m not sure how that can happen.
You also appear to be able to edit a post over three and a half hours after posting (2949 posted at 6.42 and edited at 10.15). The rest of us appear to get about ten minutes. Is that just ‘Moderator’s privilege’ or is there some other reason?

Just to clear up the admin: I misspelled naïveté so corrected it, hence stating ‘we were both wrong’. I’ve noticed you find it difficult to admit wrong, no doubt from a career where you had the ultimate sanction of detention, lines or worse, but I don’t.

No idea about the time limit on editing and currently no one in charge to ask

[Trickytreesreds]

Just to clear up the admin: I misspelled naïveté so corrected it, hence stating ‘we were both wrong’. I’ve noticed you find it difficult to admit wrong, no doubt from a career where you had the ultimate sanction of detention, lines or worse, but I don’t.

No idea about the time limit on editing and currently no one in charge to ask

I thought editing was 5 mins, then its locked?

[Andy_Faber]

I thought editing was 5 mins, then its locked?

I didnt realise it was time limited. I can edit whenever, a mod perk I guess. When I do it to other posters it always shows the fact on the post. I’ve edited other posters posts about 50 times, mainly to remove defamatory comments. I’ve also been asked to edit posts by posters of those posts a few times but assumed it was a service provider quirk