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Every ███████ time I try to go to a blog on Blogspot.com, I get redirected to the Blogspot.de site.
My network blocks "foreign" websites.
And Blogspot isn't the only site that does this nonsense. It happens with Corel and Amazon and Expedia, too. (But at least Amazon and Expedia let me "continue to the US site, instead")
If I type in .com, I expect to go to the .com website, you morons.
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I think there is (was?) an option somewhere to avoid "guess target looking at my position / language of windows"
To be honest... don't know if or where.
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It's very deliberate, so they can restrict what you see in various countries: legal stuff!
Don't know if it will work, but have you tried this: NoCountryRedirect (NCR) - Chrome Web Store[^]
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There's a foreign website (I won't mention  ) that redirects me back to the American listing. My work around is to use the Tor browser and go through a European server to access it. I have also used this same method to access American websites when I'm traveling abroad; such as paying bills and whatnot.
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jgakenhe wrote: There's a foreign website (I won't mention )
Kangaroo dating site?
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Pom Pey wrote:
Where everyone will find his warm pocket.
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Message Closed
modified 24-Jan-18 15:42pm.
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 Not exactly homework, more like a fine tuning of the fine English language. Here is a passage of the documentation I am writing.
Users who start streaming during the peak hours will be affected. Users who start streaming just before the peak hours will get the the unmodified master playlist and they will thus not be affected.
I find the "they" at the end a bit clunky. But if just write
[...] and will thus not be affected. I am not sure if the sentence remains correct, and clear. I mean "they" refers to the unaffected users, and in the the second case "will" is referring back to the users.
Perhaps both are fine but I wonder. Thanks for any input, and for reading this far.
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I would omit "they" as well.
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Perhaps [...] and thus they will not be affected
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and thus will not be affected
"thus" is replaceable with "so" so:
if you wrote "and will so not be affected" <-- that doesn't sound right does it? ("so wrong" as the kiddies say)
... not saying use "so", just that "thus" is in the wrong place.
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I would write
Quote: Players who start streaming just before the peak hours will get the unmodified master playlist and will not be affected.
leaving out "they" and "thus".
btw, you have "the the" in your sentence.
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I'd agree - "thus" is pretty archaic and not needed in "Normal writing".
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Well, you're from Wales, thus you have no idea about that! 
Just kidding of course!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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For some reason "thus" often works well for me. I like non-standard words, it keeps things interesting. I used "notwithstanding" a couple times in a training manual. Once and a while I like to use the interrobang (Alt+8253) in an e-mail. A great and underused punctuation mark. Not sure how to do it here though.
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The trouble with that is that it's demonstrating your education, your intelligence. Like using "diacritic" to describe the accents that appear above or below a character in some languages. It's the right word, but 99% of people have never even heard of it!
That's not what a manual or user instruction is about: it's to help the user, not make him feel stupid. Took me a long time to realise that: you write for "average Joe" (or more likely for "less-than-average Joe") so that what you write is as clear as possible to everybody. Save clever language for talking to clever people - who will probably critique your usage, but that's life! 
For example, in the previous sentence I used a dash, which is wrong but understood. It should — of course — be an em dash as in this sentence.
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I agree with this, generally. I design and build analytical software for use by actuaries, so the intended audience isn't the average Joe. Thus, I feel I have some latitude in this regard.
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Thanks good answer, and yeah, I do have the "the the" in almost every sentence I write  is there a diagnosis for that?
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megaadam wrote: is there a diagnosis for that?
not enough ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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Or too much of it. 
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SACRILEGE... there is never too much coffee or bacon
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I agree. Keep it short and simple. Remove the unnecessary bloat.
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My English tutor always said that, when in doubt, to go for two shorter sentences. Might not be the best way to create literature, but is always a good tip when writing manuals or documentation.
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I would simplify it further:-
"Only users who start streaming inside peak hours will be affected".
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