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Its in, ummmm, English...might should of it been in French ( not allowed here )? I ll boil it down for all non Mensa levelers:
1. If one wants to make stupid allusions questioning something that makes no sense, all in an ad hom style, some of us will make it painful to you in return.
Alright, Mensa-boy, wanna tell me what I was alluding to, or why I shouldn't question something that makes no sense?
2. If dont understand a word or concept, how to properly use it, best use a word/concept you do know.
So which is it I don't understand, a word or a concept? And which word or concept?
3. As we are not of the time of Methuselah, people dont live "for hundreds of years and dozens of generations". Goes back to precision in wording.
Is that what this is all about, a silly quibble over writing style? I said the black customs officer had been American for hundreds of years and dozens of generations, and you want to bicker that it's unclear that I was referring to his ancestry, and not him personally? Jee-zus, son, how does anyone get so uptight?
Since you "supposedly" are from Canada, its not reflecting particularly well on our neighbor to the North. We clear here? Further remediation might need be referred to the local provincial ed folk.
But the fact of the matter is you have yet to answer the original question:
Mygawd.
Listen, Mensa-boy, I don't know what game you're playing but I'm pretty sure you didn't intend to present yourself like you have. A bit of advice- lots of middle-functioning types are trying to crawl up the left side of the Bell curve, and think that using words that impress them will make them impressive to others, but try to be more careful about the simple things, like punctuation, before tackling the heavy lifting.