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JerryVan
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chrisg
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Re: This craigslist ad is worth seeing.
scary thing is this "thing" is less than 5 miles from my home. 
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Curt A
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Re: This craigslist ad is worth seeing.
"Brake" not "break"... Two different meanings...
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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alang
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Re: This craigslist ad is worth seeing.
It would probably be best to break that thing anyway ...Curt A wrote:"Brake" not "break"... Two different meanings...
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Henry
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Re: This craigslist ad is worth seeing.
Thank you, Curt! I see this kind of mistake all the time. It's quite common with so many homonyms in English. Another one that puzzles me is the confusion between "then" and "than." How often have I seen the following (or similar): "I'd rather have this then that"? It seems to be always "then" for "than," and not vice versa. And speaking of "vice," confusion between "vise" (the tool) and "vice" (the something else entirely). "I straightened it in a vice" has an unintended, but quite comical, effect.Curt A wrote:"Brake" not "break"... Two different meanings...