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English is not the first language for the majority of us on the site, so some slack should be given on that particular front - and, in fact, specific effort should be made to investigate whether what appears to be an insult or a mysterious turn of phrase may just be imperfect mastery of ther language.

There are many "non-standard" version of English on ET, so this is not a fair point to criticise as such.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Dec 25th, 2007 at 06:05:21 PM EST
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Point taken.

However, there's gibberish that's gibberish because of poor grasp of language and then there's gibberish that's gibberish because of poor grasp of the underlying concepts. I'm less forgiving of the latter than I am of the former, and I get the distinct impression that that's what we're dealing with here.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Dec 25th, 2007 at 06:15:47 PM EST
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Jake, you're quite a character.

Thanks for all your efforts on this blog of serving what you cherish.

Keep up the good work.

Kind regards,

Emil

by emilmoller (emil@beyondthewalls.eu) on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 03:07:14 PM EST
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