On Jul 12, 3:10*pm, Alistair Gunn wrote:

In uk.railway Mizter T twisted the electrons to say:

Which is pretty stupid usage, as my plumber is genuinely a
professional (unlike many!). It's perhaps something of a foil for
talking about class, which we're still to obsessed by.

nods *Another way to look at it, which doesn't suffer from this problem
is when professional means "gets paid to to do it". *Thus you can have
professional $X and amateur $X, without implying that one is of higher
quality than the other ...

I'm not sure how much I spoiled by argument with the typo "to" instead
of "too" - the grammar snobs will have me! (Actually, I am keen on
good grammar, despite copious evidence to the contrary in past posts -
plus, it was a typo, I do know the difference... really, I do!)