Cowboy Joe and VK3AUU, if you pretend not understanding English it is your problem.

No MichaelK... I'm afraid your use of english is rather unusual. You string together complex terms with insufficient linkages to make sense.

"not happy for being to the best a pool of underpaid" ? Erm... for being to the best?

Perhaps... not happy for being, at best, a pool of underpaid?

"extradite en-masse own non-Anglo-Saxon-Celtic" this connection is flawed.

Hmm... extradite large numbers of Australian minorities? or perhaps, extradite en-masse, Australians other than Anglo Saxons or those of Celtic descent?

If English is your second language, then I apologise for what may seem like callous remarks, but I don't believe it is fair to blame others who are having a tough time deciphering your statements.

VK3AUU extends the hand of goodwill, empathy and tolerance by sending a heartfelt & lengthy but genuine message of support to Michael.

In return her hand is bitten. Is there a lesson here?

In the past the main roadblocks to good communication were poor speakers and poor listeners but everything is more complicated today.

Cowboy Joe, my apologies for my intemperate reference to your peasantry, after all, my father was a cow cocky and I have similar qualifications to yourself. I was chief chemist at a well known mining establishment in the N.T. back in the sixties after which I also spent some time farming, since retired. You have my gender wrong, but that is of no moment. Our dyslexic friend seems to be past redemption, but as a last resort, I will refer him to
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ and http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
although the latter uses Webster's Dictionary as a source, so some spelling is non British (which he will no doubt applaud as he seems to eschew all thing British)

TurnRightThenLeft Thank you for your input. It seems that we have in our midst, a "Wordsmith" who wishes to rewrite the English language (particularly the rules of grammar) for which he has an apparent disdain.

I had got a very good mentor in report-writing. Experienced at a top international level, boss shared her wisdom with me, telling that everything can be written with appropriate words.

What understanding of such wording might be comprehended by missing even a gender of forum participants, TurnRightThenLeft?

And URLs are of a practical interest as sometimes Word for Windows provides no "treasures" for unknown reasons.

However, VERBAL SPOKEN English rather then writing is of concern while recently linking citizenship with linguistics.

My apologies if I have offended, that was not my intent. I was merely pointing out that blaming others for an inability to understand those posts may not be fair, as there were flaws in sentence construction.

That being said, I can appreciate the irony of pointing out such flaws using a dot point format. Especially as that format made the prose somewhat difficult to understand.

MichaelK - by and large, your use of terminology appears to be on the mark, but in my opinion, your connections between concepts is where your language appears to be less than clear.

I am not entirely certain what you refer to in relation to gender and understanding.

All I am saying, is that it isn't fair to accuse others of deliberately ignoring the message of your post, when perhaps it wasn't deliberate at all.