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| I’m sorry if you think that I “made allusion“ to the fact that someone being young looking meant that they were under-trained, what I meant was that a doctor has spent many years training in his specialty, whereas it is possible to become an optician relatively quickly, at any age, although they mostly seem very young to me.
Any ageist remarks were made against myself if anyone, as I’m clearly a lot older than most of you. Actually, I could take offense at your allusion that I was being offensive!. | |
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Using writing mediums, without facial expressions, or the use of emoticons ( e.g 
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| I would have thought it was clear that I was answering Devcat #23 about the eye test and An Luan #26 about the handbook to anyone bothering to read the previous couple of posts. It was only the next posting (#27), Sigh. | |
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Sorry, it wasn't clear, at least not to me - and since I'm generally a bit better at this sort of thing than the average forum user my guess is that it wasn't exactly clear to others. As for bothering to read the previous posts - you should also understand that most people don't read everything. They skim read, or they read only things they want to. When the conversation jumps around, people can easily become confused. What might be clear to the poster (especially one who does not use the quote functions correctly or at all) is quite often very unclear to others. You might not agree with other people not understanding what you mean, but that's the way these things go.
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| The Swiss-french around here often refer to “cabbage-eaters”, but if you don’t like it, I’ll not use it again. I’ve never come across Swissies before though; it seems to be an expression used mainly by foreigners about the Swiss and as such is also rather offensive.
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Again this seems to be a misunderstanding. I have no objection to terms such as cabbage eaters, swissies or whatever. As I've also said before (in other posts) I don't mind foul language as long as it doesn't get personal and its use is necessary or makes a post funny - in other words everything in moderation. My point to you was that your post was misunderstood by the person you aimed at - why? Because they have just arrived in Zurich, which is the german speaking part, and they wouldn't have had much awareness of any french or german terms, or names for it. For the record - I thought your remarks were quite funny, it's just that they didn't have their intended effect, that's all. In fact they caused the original poster to repeat their question, something which you probably found frustrating when you considered that you've already answered it.
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Well actually this subject is about driver's licence issues, and no, it's not closed, I'm sure other people have questions and information to add to this thread in future.
Please don't misunderstand the spirit of this message - I'm merely trying to concern myself with clarity and the reduction of misunderstandings on this forum, if you have specific questions about the use of the forum, what works, what doesn't, etc. then feel free to post these points in off topic or forum support and I'll be happy to assist you.