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Thanks, and point taken. But I'm not quite sure how you're imagining I speak. There are so many many different ways of getting information across; I'm just picking one perfectly good sentence formulation over another. I might have (and indeed often do) have so many other reasons for making the same choice of sentence. I really don't think it's the case that everything I say comes across as CLANG I AM MAKING A POINT. Not least because often when you're avoiding saying something it's really unhelpful to do it in a way which draws attention to the fact there's something to be avoided!