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Thanks - fixed.
I keep a file of these (so I have one on short notice if I'm busy) but paste auto "C#"-ed it and I didn't notice. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I believe this was the best of fife surveys. They just couldn't trumpet!
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That is only trumpet by the silly things you read when you read too quickly and only register the first and the last letter of a word.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I hate to harp on your thoughts, again . . . but they manage to snare my attention. Perhaps this is how you castanet for attention?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I think he's been sniffing that tuba glue again.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I have a feeling you've orchestrated this.
Perhaps I coda noted this measure earlier?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I certainly didn't mean to cause any treble, it's not like I'm throwing anyone off a clef.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Barring any obstacles, I'd like to somehow even the score.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Perhaps you create a team, and staff it with people where 'evening the score' is thier forte.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Well what Dojo think about that?
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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Dojo? Where Japanese people beat each other about the head with sticks? Did you mean Dobro?
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Where I'm from the head is used as a musical instrument at times. 
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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Bravo, Sir Griff!
Software Zen: delete this;
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As a non-native English speaker I am proof reading a document from a colleague. I could use a bit of advice from some fellow Loungers:
Assume a model that can be described by the following paths /A/B/C and /A/B/D.
I do not think that is grammatically correct.
Assume that we have a model that can be described by the following paths /A/B/C and /A/B/D.
May be proper English, but unbearable to read when repeated in several paragraphs.
So I came up with:
We have a model with the paths /A/B/C and /A/B/D.
Which did not draw cheers from the crowd. The use of "we" was frowned upon. I have to admit it does feel a tad unscientific.
I dunno what to do. Perhaps:
There is a model with the paths /A/B/C and /A/B/D.
The phrase "Given a model ..." would be nice but seems to require a subordinate clause[^]
I am grateful for any suggestion. If you visit Stockholm I owe you a ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Thanks!
[EDIT:] Thanks to all, and especially to Bill W & phil.o for great suggestions and explanations.
Life is too shor
modified 7-Dec-15 11:52am.
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"To assume" is a direct-transitive verb, so I think the expression "Assume a model that can..." (the first one) is perfectly valid.
I never finish anyth
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Thanks for teaching me that! 
Life is too shor
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Let a model be describable by paths /A/B/C and /A/B/D.
I am not a native English speaker either; and have no plans of visiting Stockholm .
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Hard to really be more helpful without understanding the context of the publication: technical computer science paper? Is "model" some kind of Graph ? The language used in the abstract of a technical paper is usually terse, with more verbose explication in the article-body.
Might try something like:
(terse) Assume a model with paths /A/B/C and /A/B/D:
(verbose) The model used here can be described with paths /A/B/C and /A/B/D.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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You in fact were more than helpful! I did not think that "Assume a model ..." was proper. The terse version fits like a glove. The paper is a short description of the inner workings of a software module. Thanks!
I owe you a or a Singh if I happen to wander into those environs...
Life is too shor
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/A/B/C or /A/B/D. Pick one.
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Personally I don't see a problem with any of the phrases. And I don't understand a need for a paper to sound a certain way, or appear clever in its writing rather than simply its subject.
However I was always poorly marked for my less verbose reports and papers at school. I could never understand how people could write a paragraph or more on something that could be clearly described in a single sentence.
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There are several meaningful sentences that follow, so the point was to keep the first one short. 
Life is too shor
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... at the CO-OP[^].
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Maybe, but I thought how could they quantify lost revenue?
They were selling at a lower profit I get that, but what about the thousands of customers that went in just to fill their trolleys full of bargains, customers that would have shopped elsewhere if there was no 20% discount.
I bet that effect, plus the free BBC advert means they are "quids-in"
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As the discount wasn't advertised, understandably as it wasn't supposed to exist, why would there have been any more shoppers than normal? And a 20% discount is almost certainly no-profit, if not indeed minus profit, in the grocery sector where price competition is fierce. Had there been binge buying on any scale it would have been, I'd venture to suggest, a whole lot worse than it was. Heads rolling bad, in fact.
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