from Pos Malaysia a while back, to explain about an osCommerce shipping module I wrote. I really wanted them to understand what it was doing, so they could say they didn't mind me doing it: it was a proxy quotation module, just retrieved a quotation from their online calculator, but didn't show any of their branding or other guff.

They stared at me a while, and then said "We can't get your ... slang. Your slang, your accent, too strong." I grew up on the Thames Estuary, but spent most of my adult life in the North West of England, lecturing at a Uni, so I had previously thought my accent was fairly neutral.

My wife saw my difficulty and waved her hands "where got problem? Do it like this, jam-jam ah", knocking her fists into each other. She went on like that for a couple of minutes and their eyes lit up "Aah, I see, that's what you should have said!" said one of them. I didn't have a clue what she was on about.

Oh, I'm off topic. To be honest, I don't fully understand canagdesigner, but maybe we ought to stick to Dr M's blog, or we'll make WMM's admins nervous! Still, Raja Petra, ISA, Karpal Singh all on one page should be good for SEO...