Posted 24 October 2003 - 11:42 AM
Linkstar, on Oct 23 2003, 10:52 PM, said:
not everybody is a perfect english-speaker.
the message was important. not the words.
Yes, so it doesn't matter much if you make a small spelling mistake in a big word, but when you make a mistake that causes one word to become another it suddenly becomes difficult to understand what the message was. I had to read that sentence several times to understand what it meant, and he could have just as easily fell on a double-meaning that would have completely changed the meaning of the sentence.
@KoKaïne: I don't know if you meant that as sarcasm, or if you were serious, so I just opened up
babelfish:
* Think - pensez
* Thing - chose
I'm not sure how accurate the translation is, but I'm sure you see how critical the difference is.
Why haven't you
clicked yet?
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