On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:24:56 +0200, Torsten Brinch
posted:

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:24:41 GMT, Mooshie peas
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:21:57 +0200, Torsten Brinch
posted:

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:38:11 GMT, Mooshie peas
wrote:

On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:07:10 +0200, Torsten Brinch
posted:

On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 04:42:14 GMT, "Moosh:}"
wrote:
But as dangers are usually comparative, what about a compare with coal
fired power?

Sellafield versus a coal power plant? I can't see you posting a
compare doing harm to your rep.

Sorry, I don't understand this sentence.

No worries, I'll just rephrase: I can't imagine as a possibility,
that it would do harm to your reputation,

Ahh, reputation, thankyou.
And "your posting".

No, no. "you". Like in, "I can't see you doing harm to your rep."
It's irony.

No, no, it's confused English.
"Posting" is a gerund, and gerunds take the possessive case in
pronouns, when appropriate. Otherwise your sentence is confused.

So, there's the source of your confusion: the assumption,
that "posting" in that sentence has the function of a gerund.
Who made that assumption?

I did. Isn't that obvious?
If it's not used as a gerund, you've lost me.
Could you have made your meaning clear with a judicious comma,
perhaps? As you can't see me personally, you can only surely see "my
posting". You can't logically mean "imagine" for "see" coz you and I
don't know each other.

For me, "rep" is not a usual abbreviation for "reputation".

It was with the knowledge that it would be unusual for
John Riley, that I chose it. :-)

How strange. Do you often talk to folk in riddles?
Have you got a problem with this character? It sounds like it.

Its full form just didn't occur to me.

:-) It likely wouldn't apparently occur to JR, and if it didn't,
he would be too lazy to look it up in the dictionary, too.

If you say so. I just looked it up and see that it is US colloquial
use. If that's what you like to use, fine. I didn't learn my language
with so much American influence as so many here.
You used an unfamiliar (to me) expression, I asked what it meant, and
you told me. But yet you seem to have some cryptic ulterior motive.