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[quote user="PRR8259"] I myself would have preferred the questions to be a little bit more complete, but I was able to answer. I do understand the folks who are getting frustrated at the lack of good grammar on forums such as this.  Clear concise communication should not be going out of style, but sadly for many it is.  Honestly, if I communicated in the emails for my engineering work as some folks communicate in online forums, I would no longer have employment. John <div style="clear:both;"> </div> [/quote]   You're absolutely right about the state of grammar today, however I'm compelled to make a point. Not too long ago, a young model railroader posted a topic in one of these forums. There were a number of grammatical and spelling mistakes in his post, but as I recall no one took him to task for them. The people who responded were all polite and offered advice to help him get into the hobby. To me, that's the point of this forum. A community of people with similar interests coming together to help each other with the many facets of this hobby. I'm sure there are things that people might do that could be offensive to some. But I'd suggest that those are the kinds of things that would get your account suspended, not an incorrect verb, spelling mistake or not phrasing a question in exactly the way that someone prefers. First and foremost, this forum exists for the exchanging of information to help the people on here and those just reading the forum with their modelling. If someone's lack of language skills or the way the phrase something is offensive to someone, they have the option to simply move on to the next post.
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