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Frist :D
Thats not german, thats dutch, I think.
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The thing with letter introduction lines (Dear Blabla, etc.) is even worse in French, where the word that translates "Dear" changes between if you're addressing a man or a woman. (Cher monsieur or Chère madame)
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Split the difference: Chèr
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Yes, it is.
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And in Dutch you can just write
Beste Reinier
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clean and hygienic?
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What about the gender neutral greeting "Dear reader" in English?
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Dear [##victimname##], please reply to [##scammeremail##]
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The formatting had me confused enough to look it up. The Power BI pricing is USD (so A1 is $1) an hour! Like how we list gas prices at $#.##9 per gallon. (Or 8 in the Simpsons episode "In Marge We Trust")
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How about "Hey you!"
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The [##victimemail##] was a true LOL. At least they're honest...
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That's not .65 bytes, that's .65 GB. Clearly, fractional gigabytes do exist. I have many of them on disk here!
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Perhaps a distant cousin of the fencepost error: where to put the period with respect to a parenthetical remark. (It's there at the end). is wrong because the parenthetical IS is own sentence: (It's there at the end.) Too many people get this, and the inverse, wrong. Miquelfire, meanwhile, is just avoiding using one entirely... but that's another where the period WOULD go inside. Can you see that I am serious??
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In English, it is becoming common to use "Mx" as an honorific where gender is not known.
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I always liked Miss Manner's use of "Dear Reader, ..."
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You need to defract your disk.
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Yes, it's Dutch, not German. 'Hoi Reinier" or "Beste klant" (dear customer) would have been fine :)
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Yep Nederlands defo.
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I'd buy that for a $NaN!
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In what country is "Mx." common? I have never seen it used in the United States
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England. You know, where English is from
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@RandalSchwartz ref
Of course it is and yes, we all have fractional gigabytes on our systems. But does your "many" cover 18,446,744,031 and change of them? That's 18 giga-gigabytes.
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“Dear Customer” used to be fine, but nowadays is likely interpreted as a scam attempt.
I’d use “Dear Mr. or Mrs. Smith”
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Exactly. I would find the error acceptable and not worthy of WTF if it was just a typo and they meant 18,446,744,031 bytes. Oddly specific, but still. But in that case the ,65 makes no sense at all: 5,2 bits??