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From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 10 Nov 2008 13:25:00
Message: <49187c7c$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> -  The progressive tense of the verb to die is dying, not "dieing". The
> same goes for to lie -> lying.

Not seen that one before...

> - People who constantly confuse the words "than" and "then".

In fairness, it wasn't until recently that I discovered that these are 
actually different words with subtly different meanings.

> - I think some people write "they're" instead of "there" on purpose, just
> to annoy people.

...or, generalising, people who do *anything* specifically for the 
purpose of annoying people.

> - People who don't realize that when they say "I don't know nothing", they
> are actually saying "I know something".

Ah yes, gotta love double and triple negatives. :-}

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