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DanBC on Oct 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dear John Carmack.

Even taking into account that the writer's first language wasn't English the article is pretty poor. Maybe a lot was lost in translation.

>There is a Swedish saying that goes something like "Give the bear honey, and it will take you entire arm off".

I love this idiom. It feels much nicer than "Give them an inch and they'll take a yard / mile"

dbbo on Oct 16, 2011 [–]

As a linguistics student, I have a good deal of sympathy for people using a secondary language-- but I don't think this author even proofread his post before submitting it.

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