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Re: Looks like even less availability for us here.
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Date: 
Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:10:37 GMT
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Dave Low wrote in message ...

get someone who is 100% fluent in English to write their promotional • material,
instead of a <expletive indicating a souped-up Babelfish using a Microsoft
thesaurus deleted>.


This "habit" certain people have is becoming <expletive indicating annoyance
at the insertion of lengthy expressions which interrupt the flow of the
sentence and make it very difficult to read, deleted> annoying  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/



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  Re: Looks like even less availability for us here.
 
Yes, it is. Now cut it out with the <expletive deleted, although I don't really know why I bother anyway> and bring the thing down to something manageable, like <expletive deleted>, before I get myself annoyed as heck about something I normally (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)

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  Re: Looks like even less availability for us here.
 
(...) I think it means "totally new lines": it would really help Lego if they could get someone who is 100% fluent in English to write their promotional material, instead of a <expletive indicating a souped-up Babelfish using a Microsoft thesaurus (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)

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