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Old 06-02-2002, 04:25 AM  
Tipsy
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Originally posted by XXXManager
BTW.
I rather have a virus saying "Me formetieng yor Hardisc nau. pleez wayt.... fenk yoo" that "Hada HDD kulu ruch kaput. shwaye shwaye.... marchaba"
So I know when to reset my PC and don?t have to run to the dictionary to figure out I?m too dumb and narrow minded to speak only one language

Actually - you can get along fine in life with speaking only English so that?s all fine Tipsy and I agree with you Viruses are bad and their creators should burn in hell even if they are multilingual
We'll both agree on that point then and yep to an extent I'd rather have bad English so I know it's a virus. Like I say I wasn't clear on the 1st post and have tried to be clear since. My English isn't perfect but it's generally not too bad especially when you read much writen by people who have English as a first language.

It just amazes me how a guy can spend all that time thinking he's clever writing a virus and then fuck it up on the last hurdle. I can speak and just about write French, but don't because I know my written French is appalling and my spoken gets me by but is not good enough that I use it when I don't have to.

It seems to be an Oriental thing though. Just look at any number of instruction manuals. It seems many think that their English skills are far better than they actually are or they'd employ somebody with English as a native language to write them. Going back to the French thing - I wouldn't even attempt to write a technical manual in French but would hire a French guy to do it. I've always wondered why so many Asian companies don't do the same....

Point is though it's just a fucking annoying virus and that was the main gripe. For some reason the crap English juts makes it more annoying although I must admit does identify it clearly as a virus.
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