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    Posted: October 14 2014 at 14:04
Why Magma biographers, reviewers (http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=646) write "peace" for "piece", "languish" for "language"...?
Kobaļan influence?
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^ I guess it's Dutch influence, quite forgivable if English is not one's native language.

Anyway, thanks, I've peplaced "peace" with "piece" in the bio.
If you don't like "languish" you can contact the reviewer who used this word. Smile
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Points: 3073 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2014 at 15:19
This is an international site, and as long as people write reviews in a language that people can understand even though it“s not perfect or grammatically correct, I“m pretty sure the owners of the site (who themselves are second language English speakers), condone those kinds of reviews. Personally I think it would be great if people pointed out my grammatical errors, so I could correct them, but I“m not sure others would take it the same way.
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Points: 11 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2014 at 15:37
Wow, that was fast! Thanks.

Yeah, it's always sensitive to make language remarks, hence my failed attempt of humoring it up.

In general the language level is quite good in the bios and reviews (including Magma's) so maybe that's precisely why these particular mistakes struck me.

BTW the mistakes were homophones. Miracle cure: read more (Poe, Neville, Adams, Dick, Heinlein, Asimov, King James...)
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Points: 7964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2014 at 18:04
Originally posted by MariusAA MariusAA wrote:

Yeah, it's always sensitive to make language remarks, hence my failed attempt of humoring it up.
If you'll find other grammatical errors in bios, please report them (by your choice, with or without humour) in this thread: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=82726, we'll gladly correct them. Smile
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Points: 24646 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2014 at 03:15
Originally posted by NotAProghead NotAProghead wrote:

^ I guess it's Dutch influence, quite forgivable if English is not one's native language.

Anyway, thanks, I've peplaced "peace" with "piece" in the bio.
If you don't like "languish" you can contact the reviewer who used this word. Smile

Russian influence Wink? 
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^ Obviously, cyrillic "p" sounds like latin "r". LOL
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Points: 24646 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2014 at 03:51
Originally posted by NotAProghead NotAProghead wrote:

^ Obviously, cyrillic "p" sounds like latin "r". LOL

That's true. I didn't even think of that LOL.
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Points: 7964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2014 at 04:04
^ In fact it was just a mistyping. Smile
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Points: 1413 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2014 at 18:02
Originally posted by MariusAA MariusAA wrote:

Why Magma biographers, reviewers (http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=646) write "peace" for "piece", "languish" for "language"...?
Kobaļan influence?
Peace.
--Marius

Something four the Knit Peaking Bored two way in on LOL
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