Okay, point taken but as someone who has been guilty of being insensitive in the past, just think we need to be careful how we phrase things on the web. Barton On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Nivard Ovington wrote: > Absolutely agree Barton but much depends on the usage of dumb > > I think its just a term used by Phil and not meant in a malicious way > > Some words have more force or carry more weight when read literally > but I don't believe it was intended that way > > A better way might have been to say it was incorrect > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > On 07/06/2012 21:32, BARTON LEWIS wrote: >> "Generally we should be thinking and recording how things were at the >> time they happened rather than in todays terms" >> >> I agree, but Phil's assertion that it would be "dumb" to state that >> Sallie's ancestor was born in Germany in 1844 is inappropriate. >> There's >> a polite way to point out such information, and that is not it. >> >> Barton

Again I could not agree more with you We all use different words and ways to communicate and sometimes it does not read well when no malice was intended Email is one of those methods that is sometimes hard to convey the right tone hence copious use of smileys :-) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 07/06/2012 22:09, BARTON LEWIS wrote: > Okay, point taken but as someone who has been guilty of being > insensitive in the past, just think we need to be careful how we phrase > things on the web. > > Barton