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In article <2050@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:

   markd@csl.sj.nec.com (Mark Dyer) writes:

   >In article <SANTOS.92Jul16131924@melon.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp> santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Rafael &) writes:

   >   Mark>Mark Dyer		English: markd@tdd.sj.nec.com
   >   Mark>NEC America, Inc.	 $BF|K\(B$B8l(B: markd@csl.sj.nec.com
   >   Mark>
   >   Mark>When I lived in Japan, my friends called me $B5H30?M(B.($B$-$A$,$$$8$s(B)
   >   Mark>I'm still not sure if it was a complement or not.

   >   Uh, Mark, the word is "compliment" or "complement" ? 

   >My spelling skills are terrible, so when someone asks me something like
   >this I immediately assume that I goofed, but I looked the word up in a
   >dictionary (the American Heritage Dictionary) and, much to my amazement,
   >"complement" is the correct spelling. At least on this side of the
   >Atlantic. :-)

   Hmmm, my dictionary (Random House College Dictionary, 1982) has both:
   'complement' is something that completes or makes perfect. 'compliment'
   is an expression of praise, commendation, or admiration.

   So which do you mean to say: it completes you? or praises you?

Was there one for "confuses?" Sometimes I really hate English.

I wonder what our Japanese participants think about all this confusion.
Maybe they feel better about their own English abilities. Or maybe they
just blame it on that monkey who keeps falling out of the tree... :-)

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