On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:59:50 -0000, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

|
wrote in message
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|I normally like to read the Jeff Howwell column in the Telegraph (web
| version) but in todays issue he says "British houses have always been
| built with timber stud partitions".
|
| My early 70s house has brick or blockwork walls throughout, upstairs
| and down. Should these be called something other than partitions, or is
| he talking ********?
|
|It depends on your interpretation of what he wrote.
|
|Timber stud partitions (aka walls) have been used in British houses for
|centuries - but not to the exclusion of other methods. Thus, British houses
|HAVE always been built with timber stud partitions. Not ALL British houses
|have been built with timber stud partitions.
|
|Boy babies have always been born to women but not all babies born to women
|have been boys.
|
|Thank goodness.
|
|People do tend to assume that readers will understand what they write.
|Readers do tend to put their own connotation on anything which could be
|ambiguous.
|
|There are many examples of each in newsgroups and this one isn't an
|exception.

OMG I agree with Mary ;-)
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