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Dear Lawrence Thanks for this. You make some interesting points, and I've passed your comments on to Ian Seed, the reviewer. I'm sure he'll be -- something. Interested, perhaps. Unless he doesn't understand what you're getting at. From my own point of view, as the site owner responsible for posting the review, I'd have to say that I had no trouble understanding what the review says and means. Also, I actively encourage people who write for me to be somewhat conversational and discursive (are these the same things? I'm never quite sure) - anyway, to write in a style someone recently described as "blog-style writing". This doesn't exclude precision, of course, but it probably allows for less than you might like. It is of course possible to be very picky about the quotation marks and so on, and by implication ask for an article twice as long so that everything said is defined and explained, but because I understood what Ian meant I figured a lot of other people would, too. If some claimed not to then I would be tempted to think they were being purposefully obtuse, or were genuinely perhaps even a little dim, or were looking for another site and came to mine by mistake. And I'm sure you're none of these, and neither are my regular readers, so I'm a little bewildered by your difficulties. Perhaps I am just good at understanding people who haven't "managed sufficient command of the language to express ideas." It must be an empathy thing. With best wishes Martin