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caker
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Atlantic City, NJ, USA
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Login and logout are not verbs. One cannot be logining or have logined. The verb forms are "log in" and "log out". One can log in, log on, log out, be logging in, logging on, logged out, or have logged in, logged on, logged out. It makes me twitch every time I need to "login" to this site (and may others that make the same mistake). I would love it if you could fix those!

http://notaverb.com/

Thanks for all you've done on this site - great stuff!

-Chris

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Surf City, USA (Santa Cruz, CA)
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Chris, if you could point me

Chris, if you could point me to where I've transgressed, I will fix it.

I fully appreciate your feelings. My particular peeve is "could care less", which means exactly nothing. I could care less, I could care more, but if I couldn't care less, then whatever is being discussed is truly insignificant.

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San Antonio, TX
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Darryl - I searched and see a

Darryl -

I searched and see a few pages:

http://www.vintagebmw.org/v7/node/473

http://www.vintagebmw.org/v7/node/4698

Also, below my name in the upper right corner where it shows me logged in, there is the clickable word "Logout".

Not sure if that's what the issue is...

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Darryl.Richman
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Thanks Kurt!

I've changed the instances I think were appropriate. Let me know if you find others.

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Nice - you fixed it while I

Nice - you fixed it while I was replying. Thank you!

-Chris

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login, logout

Darryl.Richman wrote:

Chris, if you could point me to where I've transgressed, I will fix it.

I fully appreciate your feelings. My particular peeve is "could care less", which means exactly nothing. I could care less, I could care more, but if I couldn't care less, then whatever is being discussed is truly insignificant.

Darryl - - I'm with you completely but I gave up trying to explain this to people long ago. They just didn't get it. I was beginning to think I was the only one left in America who understood the difference and I ain't no brain surgeon by a long shot.

Richard

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