First of all, you don’t have to use “bad words” to be insulting. It’s something you can achieve alone by being condescending and arrogant.
You are a great example of this. Perhaps I have a more old fashioned way of doing it, if you will.
Are you not capable of understanding a simple hint? I did said that 'IN the trenches" is just a term, and that’s exactly why I referred to the book, that share’s the exact same sentence. It was deliberately to make a point that it’s used widely. So how can you possibly turn that into something to use against me? It’s seems like you’re a bit confused yourself.
What guy? I reacted because you think that “Trench warfare played a negligible part in the war”, or at least GoldenWrench67 had that idea, but you backed him up. I understand that particular sentence just fine and since I couldn’t agree, I wanted you to elaborate and share your views.
That’s where you started dodging the subject… aaaaaaand here we are.
I don’t think we’ll come any closer to a clean debate, so let’s just agree to disagree. It’s Christmas after all.
Cheers.