to clear on a boat

[TheParser]

As the young people say, OMG!

And as we old people say, I GIVE UP!

The latest posters have persuaded me to change my mind again.

Many thanks to Suprunp for starting this stimulating discussion:

(a) I have realized what a poor reader I am.

(b) I have realized that I should be super careful in the future before posting my two cents.

(c) I have realized how wise usingenglish.com is in requiring people like me to

start an answer with NOT A TEACHER.

(Oh, well, back to the deletion button.)

[5jj]

(Oh, well, back to the deletion button.)

Please, no. Answers that are not completely correct can be useful for people to see how misunderstandings can arise. That is particularly true in this thread, in which we are still not 100% clear what the original words meant. It is reassuring for learners to know that it is not always their ignorance that causes their lack of comprehension; native speakers can be unsure too.

If native speakers delete posts in which they have made a mistake/misjudgement, then learners may come to the erroneous idea that everything that native speakers write or say is 'correct', and that native speakers understand everything that is written/said in English.