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Message: [QUOTE="Bongo, post: 3101161, member: 8455"] In my view the word supposed can be used to convey doubt in an established fact. In this case to convey doubt that the captain was adequately captaining even though they had the official title. However, I think Huge was taking issue with the negative statement of supposed being used to take another shot at Boyd rather than the correct or incorrect use of supposed. So my long diatribe is probably moot and is now firmly into the semantics I suggested that we should avoid. I agree with Huge that in a professional space there is a need for correcting but I have got on the wrong side of social etiquette when doing it and try to avoids it here because it sucks the fun a bit. What I respect about Huge that he freely admits if he has got something wrong (e.g. NASA). This is a quality that seems to be diminishing faster than english language skills. For me that makes any sort of alleged grammatical nitpicking 100 times more tolerable. I will shut up about it all now. [/QUOTE]

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