Andrew Thompson wrote:
Andrew Thompson wrote:
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5) The word ...
Oh, and 'A doubt'* means athiests. Your subject line should have been
either 'A question' or better, "Load URLs from file to GUI on click"
(or something
similarly descriptive).
* And no, I do not care that 'a doubt' means 'a question' to 'some
cultures'. This is an international forum conducted in English, and
in this context, 'doubt' means 'not trusting something, that other
people believe'.
It is, as you say, an international forum. As such, readers should be
aware that there are many dialects of English, including a really weird
one written and spoken in the USA.
Until I moved to California, I had little idea which of the English
English usages I had learned as my native language were shared with US
English, and which were not.
I don't think it is reasonable to insist on people writing specifically
in US English. Any understandable written dialect of English should be
acceptable. The only good reason I see to question a usage is if you do
not, in fact, understand it.
than "to mistrust information". It confuses me every time I see the word used