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<p>[QUOTE="fidbald, post: 755, member: 61"]from my side nothing to say against being blunt. I think most of us can take it when proven completely wrong. but in the sense of these fora also being a learning experience for many, it would be nice to give good sources and links then. and perhaps being tolerant enough in some occasions and trying to understand why the other person came to a completely wrong or other conclusion. example: we once had a heated discussion about antique Westerwald saltglaze and I was wondering why the English speakers were so stubborn about certain particularities and found out that the technical terms in use are not congruent with the German ones - and for quite a long time, actually since collectors/historians/scientists started to make up classifications in the 19th c.</p><p><br /></p><p>as for this thing called Political Ccorrectness that was so boring on ebay: that's a made up thing of hypocrites - mainly in politics - to prohibit other opinions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="fidbald, post: 755, member: 61"]from my side nothing to say against being blunt. I think most of us can take it when proven completely wrong. but in the sense of these fora also being a learning experience for many, it would be nice to give good sources and links then. and perhaps being tolerant enough in some occasions and trying to understand why the other person came to a completely wrong or other conclusion. example: we once had a heated discussion about antique Westerwald saltglaze and I was wondering why the English speakers were so stubborn about certain particularities and found out that the technical terms in use are not congruent with the German ones - and for quite a long time, actually since collectors/historians/scientists started to make up classifications in the 19th c. as for this thing called Political Ccorrectness that was so boring on ebay: that's a made up thing of hypocrites - mainly in politics - to prohibit other opinions.[/QUOTE]
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