The problem is that there are bound to be some people who think that Phugoid Phlue and his ilk are speaking the gospel truth. It's OK on PPrune because he'll get corrected, but elsewhere?
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But it so depends on the stress in the sentence - say PP's "I don't..." and it can sound really quite certain, or totally unsure - whereas he could have just posed the Q "can you...?"
Last edited by airborne_artist; 26th November 2006 at 19:49.
Reason: To answer H-redeye!