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@ Worldwalker I would normally agree about poor grammer, spelling, syntax, etc. will damage the credibility of someone (it galls me to see poor use of English on forums, etc. primarily used by Yanks) but we (and by we, I mean everyone here) need to keep in mind that this is an international forum and English is not everyone's first language. Making things even more "interesting" is there are many different "flavors" ("flavours" for you folks across the pond from me) of English spoken around the world (and even within a single country; look at all the dialects within the U.S. alone). Not all posters are going to have the luxury of having a native speaker handy to verify their translations, either. We so called native English speakers (and there are many who will swear we Yanks haven't used English in years, including me) need to be accomodating of those who do not speak it as a first (or sole) language and be thankful we are not having to try to read and post in their language.
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