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Dave Weilacher wrote:
>This brings to mind one of my favorite sayings
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>"Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing"
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>Do you suppose Carls point could have been made with humour instead of personal assualt? Or perhaps humour was intended.
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You're quite right. It never occurred to me that my comment could
possibly be construed as a reflection on Dan, and it definitely wasn't
intended that way. For me, his suggestion that the two abbreviations
could be confused immediately evoked a comical image of somebody
attempting to plot a nanometer on a nautical chart, a scenario I
consider pretty unlikely. However, I certainly respect and applaud
Dan's attention to establishing unequivocal abbreviations.
Carl
