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(SeparatedbyaCommonLanguage) This post title has been hanging around in my drafts since August 2006, when the friend who's been known on this blog as Foundational Friend mentioned some AmE bugbears as potential fodder for the blog. The offending AmE sentence was:
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Update update feed set failed_fetches=0, fetched=current_timestamp() where feed_id = 10329 failed: 1142 [UPDATE command denied to user '334187_hdlns_ms5'@'10.187.248.89' for table 'feed'] in [update feed set failed_fetches=0, fetched=current_timestamp() where feed_id = 10329]
updated 10329 (Separated by a Common Language), inserted 1, updated 0, at 2012-05-28 19:25:54
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