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Re: Peter T. Daniels manipulating the Windows taskbar with a mouse.
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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Mar 23, 2010, 2:20:22 PM3/23/10
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>> But you do know that Etienne Rouette is winding M. sjdevnull up,
>> right? The "as a native speaker" stuff should have given it away
>> several messages back.
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> Ah. I did have an uneasy feeling that it might be a new variant of "in
> English usage".
>
It's a fairly obvious pit trap: Post false claims of what one does "as
a native speaker". Someone responds that native speakers of X don't
actually do what is claimed. You smugly reply that you didn't claim to
be a native speaker of that particular language.
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>> But you do know that Etienne Rouette is winding M. sjdevnull up,
>> right? The "as a native speaker" stuff should have given it away
>> several messages back.
>>
> Ah. I did have an uneasy feeling that it might be a new variant of "in
> English usage".
>
It's a fairly obvious pit trap: Post false claims of what one does "as
a native speaker". Someone responds that native speakers of X don't
actually do what is claimed. You smugly reply that you didn't claim to
be a native speaker of that particular language.
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