While it's true it doesn't explicitly state "ripoffs of standard ones" either, part of the art of writing is spotting ambiguities and potential misinterpretations and nipping them in the bud. Of course this is so hard OMG, because it requires some level of critical reading skills.
But in the long run it saves everybody's time, including the writer's, because he doesn't have to answer the same question 274 times.
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Do you see the word "custom" in the article?
While it's true it doesn't explicitly state "ripoffs of standard ones" either, part of the art of writing is spotting ambiguities and potential misinterpretations and nipping them in the bud. Of course this is so hard OMG, because it requires some level of critical reading skills.
But in the long run it saves everybody's time, including the writer's, because he doesn't have to answer the same question 274 times.
If I was making that joke I would have pluralised it because...
a) Readers are, on average, slightly dumber than the editors.
b) One Fischertechnik, like one Meccano, is NFUTA.
ITYM CETAA. Sorry.
Seems quality's going up under the new regime it seems.
How de we know you're really the new owner?
Is that because they couldn't find it unaided?
You certainly can, but it's like learning about sex without a woman/man/sheep.
Of course they did.
Whether it was in Bangalore, Beijing or Birmingham[1], well, that's a different question.
[1] Either one - it's equally applicable.
Way to go, shitdot.
Submitted by prisoninmate. Presumably he's in for crimes against the English language.
He's certainly familiar with really long sentences.
A software? Did anybody write a software recently? I wrote three softwares last week.
P.S. there appears to be a problem with logging on. I get a message "wrong image text", which is hardly surprising because there's no image.
Why "Now" after a comma?
Bullshit!
You seem to be suggesting that dimothy can't even spell the guy's name right, despite actually linking to an article that has it in the URL.
Withdraw that insidious libel, sir, or there shall be fisticuffs.
Watched some old BBC Shakespeare stuff recently. Did it bother me that Dick The Shit looked different to Gloucester from Henry VI Part 3? Not a whit.
US Primaries, all the ISIS shit, sabre rattling over the Spratly Islands and JIMMY HILL died.
Bugger that. Some dude wrote a book set somewhere other than Earth, and now he's writing ANOTHER ONE? OMGeleventyhundredandone!!!!!!
Nearly everybody.
Perhaps they could extend it to check for commas, that don't need to be there.
A former polytechnic, I suspect.
I don't know what your native language is, but the post you're replying to was in what we call English.
In that language "character" is much closer to "role" than it is to "actor".
Go to frosty-piss-u-like-a-hut!
You know how it goes ... slow news day, not enough coffee ...
Having been beaten to the punch on the main point, I will just point out that sometimes you should look more carefully before posting.
I suspect they are Microsoft Support.
It would explain quite a lot.
Correction: no it isn't.
Do you shake (I mean are you shaking) - your head from side to side as you are writing?