Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> This in itself is less bad than my mum's pathology of repeating words to 
> differentiate them. "This is the total. Well, I mean, it's not the 
> *total* total, but it's the total." WTF?

My favorite was "The car wasn't just totaled. It was completely totaled!"

> I haven't come across either of these mistakes myself...

I think you get it more in places people tend to use english less. Most 
of the non-native english on this group is pretty amazingly good. I 
heard this all the time in school with exchange professors, tho. Quite 
distracting when they're talking about things like initial TCP window 
sizes, and they can't get straight whether it's a bound connection or a 
bounded connection. :-)

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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