[EricH]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

Or perhaps you're not particularly clear in your writing?

I can understand him clearly. And I'm not exactly reading, I'm skimming the post.

There is a difference between reading and understanding/critical reading. If you can read, you can see these words on the page and know that they represent some thought. If you're actually understanding, or reading critically, you see the words, understand what the thought means, maybe pick up some context, and generally get a much better picture of what someone is trying to say.

As an example:
If I say "Shop skills are more important than engineering", I'm sure some folks will jump all over me about that one, something along the lines of how those "are engineering" or some such line of thought (or the other one, "just build it, the engineer knows best"). But, to put some context in that, I hold an engineering degree and work as a technician. And sometimes I go "I'd just LOVE to get the engineer who designed THAT down here and have HIM try to build it." And if you think about it, how is that engineer's design going to get built without some shop skill? Hmm?