Mr 0,

I've never encountered any engineer having trouble with words of several syllables, which is hardly surprising as "engineering" itself has four. But engineers tend to value clarity. There's no advantage in telling you "your comments consist of the propagation of multiple falsehoods" when I could instead describe them as "a pack of lies".

"If I don't answer your questions it is probably because I don't understand why you are asking the question."
I think your failure ta answer it after I'd explained why (and even after I reminded you that I'd explained why) suggests a very different reason: you know what you wrote was absolute rubbish (or at least beyond your intellectual capacity to justify) and you want to maintain the illusion of superior knowledge of matters historical, sociological and anthropological.

But you've overstretched yourself; you're not fooling anyone!

Dear Aidan,

I have encountered plenty of engineers who have trouble using words of three or more syllables. Some of the engineers I've worked with over the past 40 years are very poor in English. I paid a compliment to an engineer once, saying 'That is a feather in your cap' and he wanted to fight me because he didn't wear a cap.

I keep to the periphery of the engineering trade because I have trouble understanding most engineers. Their grammar, syntax and lexicon are all over the place and they use what I call Engineer-speak as a variant of English. Their English is just not the sort of English that would be acceptable in Arts. It's almost as if they stopped learning English after finishing their secondary education.

Mr O: Their English is just not the sort of English that would be acceptable in Arts.

There we go again, "I'm just so classy, I could just touch myself. Oooh."

Anyone can scribble on a wall with their crayons & be called an Artist & have an Arts Degree. Such a useless Degree. An old girl friend got one of those. She could have translated Ancient English into Old English. Hundreds of Applications & not one answer. She a nurse now.

At least Engineers are useful & the improve the World. They probably use Adult words, way over your head ducky.

Dear Jayb,

This is between me and Aidan. We don't need you putting in your two bits unless you happen to be an engineer.

Engineering Trades Person (Mechanical)with Double modules + (52 in all), Plus, Certificate in Business Studies 111, Certificate in Computers 11, Certificate 1 in Electronics. Certificate 111 in Instruction, to Warrant Officer. Certificate 11 in Water Management. (British Army School of Health , Neesoon, Singapore.) Ticket for just about every type of Heavy Machinery you can think of.

And with an Arts Degree you can draw stickmen with crayons & talk funny. Whoopee Duck. I just love Arty Farty types, they're sooooo funny.

Heh, heh, the bib and braces and the Doc Martens boots doth not an engineer make.

On the other hand, any opinionated fool can be a social engineer and there are so many of them about.