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HS1 Domestic trains are a bit busy
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 ... This is professional in the 'old' sense of the word, being someone who can counter-sign your passport application. Helpfully the Government has a list of professional people here http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAn...ort/Passports/ Applicationinformation/DG_174151 which is a wonderful mix of professions!! So the landlord at your local can countersign, but not your plumber (unless he is a director of his self-employed PLC!) |
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