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Re:Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed by hueving on Friday July 01, 2016 @06:39PM (#12020201)
Apparently not or the poster would have used that convention.
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Re:Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed by dguaraglia on Friday July 01, 2016 @06:54PM (#12020283)
I think it might have to do with the poster's mother tongue. As a Spanish-speaker I'd tend to say "pagarían 20% menos" (which roughly translates to "they'd pay 20% less".

Some idioms are very difficult to get rid off. I sometimes can distinguish Brazilians from Argentines just by the way they write in English.

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Re:Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed by hueving on Saturday July 02, 2016 @12:46PM (#12023062)
I grew up in the US and am a native English speaker raised by native English speakers and I sometimes use the same idiom. I suspect the GP is complaining because English is not a strong language for him/her.
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Re:Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed by nottoday88 on Saturday July 02, 2016 @07:32PM (#12024182)
What's the meaning of GP? Gilip?
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Re:Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed by sbmassey on Saturday July 02, 2016 @08:06PM (#12024266)
Grandparent post
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