I'm sorry you feel that way...

I'll take this into account when I post in the future.

Thanks.

So why do you feel that ai.com is a "smashing success"?

For that matter how about Komla's in SIN or BKK ?!

You guys are such FTers that you refer to cities by their airport codes. A newbie would think that those restaurants are actually in the airport, not in the city.

Only FTers/regular fliers would know such codes, and so it makes it easier to converse. I now do the same with my wife, for major cities. I use them in my phonebook as well. Its great to be able to do so . Imagine having to write out the full form of BLR the horror.

Nice... so you didn't have to change the entries in your phone book when Bangalore changed to Bengaluru and Calcutta to Kolkata

Compared to what it used to be, AI's website has certainly improved. It still remains rather rudimentary, but does have a lot of little convenient features that are somewhat pleasant surprises.

It's not about to win any design awards anytime soon. However, it is certainly more user-friendly than initial appearance would indicate.

I have found a simple compare with Jet's website shows ai.com to be good in utilitarian terms but poor in aesthetics, whilst jet.com looks much nicer, but is a monumental clusterf**k, not particularly user-friendly and rather more cumbersome to use.

I suppose the English language definition of the word "fact" is very different from whatever it is you're learning.

Or perhaps they don't start teaching word meanings until you reach class 8?

Learning to be a politician?

Here I was, under the impression that once you state something as "being a fact" then you better be stating a provable fact.

If you want to state an opinion, you start of by saying "in my opinion". Now, your opinion may have its roots in other documented or undocumented "facts".

Pretty simple primary school stuff, really.

Nope. "it is a fact" is a common phrase used in American english to state a subjective opinion.

Let me give a simple explanation:
1) A fact can clearly be proven or disproven
2) An opinion is something which cannot be clearly proven or disproven.

Therefore, it is a fact that I have enjoyed my experiences on AI.
It is an opinion to say that AI consistently provides a good experience. I base that opinion off of facts (I and others I know have had good experiences), but it cannot be proven conclusively.

If I say "It is a fact that AI provides good experiences consistently," I am expressing an opinion. The fact that the word "fact" is in the statement is irrelevant - the statement cannot be proven or disproven conclusively, so therefore it is an opinion...

And if you don't mind, I'd like to drop this conversation. It's clearly not going anywhere, and it's just wasting our time.

And THAT is a FACT!

No it's not !

It cannot clearly be proven or disproven that this conversation is going nowhere.

Ergo...

Actually, it's an opinion. I think that it isn't going anywhere. Somebody else could think that it is a very useful conversation that is accomplishing a lot.

But, I assume that nobody will disagree with me on that one...

I meant that when I said it was a fact that it was actually an opinion.

It is a common phrase used in American english. To understand it, you need to have passed a high school English course. Clearly you forget all the content you learned.

Well, actually in that usage, it would make plenty of sense. It's hard to tell over the internet, especially considering that you haven't quite been using American English in the past.

I'm sorry but isn't American English an oxymoron?