Re:Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
by IsoldesKnight on Thursday December 29, 2022 @09:59AM
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> it literally says 'we have a Filipino woman, who works for us'.
It _literally_ does not say that. You added a comma which changes the expression.
Re:Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
by jacquesm on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:03AM
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Apologies, I did not cut-and-paste but wrote it out, that was not intentional, and any change in the expression can be ignored, to me it still reads just the same, I checked my original comment and there I fortunately did get it right.
Re:Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
by milkshakes on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:05AM
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i was chalking it up to the language difference as well, i was aware that english isn’t your first language. i see what you are saying but for example i have a black engineer who works for me, and he’s one of my best. and neither of us think he is a slave. nobody native speaking english would bat an eye at that sentence even formed that specific way. with the comma though, i would agree with you. it’s subtle.
Re:Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
by jacquesm on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:07AM
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I figured pointing out that I realized that the OP did not mean what I read into it would pre-empt the ridiculous barrage of follow up comments and pile-ons but that was wishful thinking on my part.
If I had written something to the same effect it would likely have been 'A Filipino woman who works for us' just to avoid that sense of possession, doubly so because of the context.