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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:11 pm

butt long linky

Shocked

This made me laugh, it sounds like a lad wrote it! The item is supposed to be in Italy, so I will forgive the poor english, but not :

Quote:

MODALITY OF ACCEPTED PAYMENT ONLY

Now if it then said Western Union, then that would raise an eyebrow or two Surprised

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:53 pm

Some Ebay item descriptions can be good for a laugh too. For example, some of the terms on the dvd listings include:
"Fan made" - copied from my old video/tape recordings,
"sourced from the public domain" - I downloaded it,
"video transfer" - I copied my video to dvd.

"Not an official release" is another good one too.

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:57 pm

I dunno, but the bloody flashy blinking graphics are straight out of hell. Shocked

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:07 pm

Jason_dinAlt wrote:

... MODALITY OF ACCEPTED PAYMENT ONLY ...

Modality, resp. the vernacular equivalent, is a perfectly normal word in Italian, French, German ...

Nothing strange about that at all.

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:07 am

I AM MODALITY OF BORG.

YOU WILL BE SCAMSSIMILATED.

Drat, it says html is on, yet I cannot use a simple <tt> tag. Razz

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:13 am

kleindoofy wrote:

Modality, resp. the vernacular equivalent, is a perfectly normal word in Italian, French, German ...

I was just going to mention that, "modalit�" is a widely used and perfectly acceptable term.

False friends are pairs of words in two languages (or letters in two alphabets) that look and/or sound similar, but differ in meaning. Both false friends and false cognates can cause difficulty for students learning a foreign language, particularly one that is related to their native language, because the students are likely to misidentify the words due to language interference.

Nothing interesting here.

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:37 am

The person has a 100% positive feedback rating on nearly 500 transactions.

English is clearly not their first language and the flashy 1997 graphics suck, but hey, that isn't a crime yet is it?

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:07 pm

It must be a scam. There's no RSOT.

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:40 pm

Don wrote:

I was just going to mention that ...

Yeah, but you didn't. I did.

Don was too late again. Razz

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