Re: Spring out, Fall in
Amethyst Deceiver
<J.deBoynePoll...@NTLWorld.COM> wrote:
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's another question to ask yourself: When one is code-switching
>>>>> between Australian English and U.S. English, and automatically
>>>>> converting the seasons out of habit, which season is "Spring" and
>>>>> which is "Fall" in the mnemonic?
>>>>>
>>>> Um, that last question is a non-issue. Daylight saving, wherever
>>>> implemented, always starts during one's local Spring.
>>>>
>>> You're missing the point. How often do you find yourself
>>> automatically translating U.S. speakers talking of things happening
>>> in the "Fall" into happening in Spring? When one switches between
>>> U.S. English and Australian English, it's possible for "Spring
>>> forward, Fall back" to become "Autumn forward, Spring back" if one
>>> already has the habit of such automatic conversion between the U.S.
>>> seasons and the Australian ones.
>>>
>> Jonathan, is there some reason you start a new thread every time you
>> respond?
>>
>This is, oddly enough, the second time that I've had to say this in a
>week: Whatever you're doing with Forte Agent, you're doing it wrongly.
Indeed, and I'm sorry about that.
>If a change in subject line causes Forte Agent to break threads, then
>it's threading on the wrong thing. You'll find that all of these
>messages contain References: headers linking them back to the previous
>messages in the same thread, which M. Duncanson's and M. Brader's NUAs
>(as well as probably everyone else's nowadays) are happily threading.
>This is the default behaviour of Thunderbird's message composer, and
>although I have the ability to break it, I'm far from inclined to. (-:
However, this doesn't explain where your attribution lines go. I'm not
talking about the References lines, but the bit within the post that
explains who said what. For instance, my post has an attribution line
at the top that shows I'm quoting you. The bit that should be there,
that indicates that you were responding to my post, is missing.
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