that a lot of people on this list don't speak or write English natively.
For me, English is only my third language, but I try to write it
correctly. It doesn't amuse me if others make comments like this on the
list. I didn't even know "infer" existed. I would like to see you get a
message in Dutch correct.
Pascal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 13 July 2004 06:59
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Hot Button - English pedantry (was: cfmail suddenly not
> working...very wierd
>
> > But the error message infers that the login is not being accepted.
>
> <hot button>
> *implies*
>
> You might *infer* from the error message that the login is not being
> accepted.
> The error message might well *imply* that the login is not being
accepted.
>
> Sorry, but my wife & I were just bemoaning the fact that many people
> out there don't know the difference between affect / effect, mute /
> moot, and infer / imply and I swore to her that computer people get
> infer / imply right most of the time...
> </hot button>
>
>
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