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Re:Ismail al-Jazari – the medieval 'Father of Robotics' by selimthegrim on Sunday February 28, 2021 @05:15PM (#26297619)
Fair enough, but he and I share a native non-English language, so I thought I was being helpful.
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Re:Ismail al-Jazari – the medieval 'Father of Robotics' by 2Gkashmiri on Monday March 01, 2021 @11:29AM (#26304440)
i often try to keep my language as close to british english but very sometimes there is a slip up. I try to avoid this though
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Re:Ismail al-Jazari – the medieval 'Father of Robotics' by selimthegrim on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:35PM (#26305452)
In Urdu the distinction is a little different and probably very seldom arises in the English sense (e.g. jaldi utho vs jaldi se utho when what is meant is like subah sawere (se) utho) so it's not your fault.

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/hindi-urdu-early-to-...

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