On 8/30/2010 10:39 AM, Derek Geldard wrote:
wrote:
On 8/29/2010 7:17 PM, Derek Geldard wrote:
I doubt the writer is a native English-speaker

Maybe.

- but he/she may have learnt English from American instructors.

On a short wave radio? (LOL)

???

Difficulty in imitating the heterodyne whistles and pops.

Ah.

IME More likely copied and pasted from leftpondian tracts.

Very few Americans will reference Celsius - Fahrenheit is still in
common use there - and much of the phrasing is not standard American.

It has an identical feel about it to the outpourings of the
leftpondian fanatic who posts stuff here about (lightening) surge
arrestors, which is totally inappropriate to the UK power distribution
system. Who continues nevertheless as if he was totally oblivious of
the existence of the rest of the world bar the USA.

I must have him killfiled.

IOW As everybody knows everybody everywere does everything the
American way.