"Rosalie B." wrote:




He wasn't correcting your English - he was correcting the idea of the
definition of conglomerate. If he were just correcting your English,
he would have said that the appropriate phrase to describe West Marine
and the effect they have on the chandlery markets was 'monopoly'.

I am not arguing the correctness of the term conglomerate vs. monopoly.
Perhaps monopoly would have been a more descriptive term, but why
harp on this.



Since we were discussing a large corporation which sells marine
products which was incorrectly calling a conglomerate, it was not off
topic here, but your remarks about Lincoln WERE off topic.

I think they were off topic since this is a boating forum and calling
West a conglomerate or a monopoly doesn't change the reality of
the problem of a single company controlling most of the retail outlets
to the boating public.



If tangential remarks bug you then you'd do better to go to a
moderated group or to get out of this venue altogether. I find it far
worse when folks engage in protracted slanging matches that are ON
topic.

Does that go for your protracted defense of this linguistic expert?

I think I will just ignore your advice, since nobody appointed you
as the chief advisor of who should and who shouldn't post here.

Unfortunately, there are no decent moderated boating forums that I
know of. Moderating a forum only makes sense when the poster is
completely off the subject. In this case, the poster just deviated from
the issue to go down his preferred path, never addressing the original
idea being presented.