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Eye urgree, ass lng ass yu Ken rid thz wy dos eet madder howl iz zpelt?
To go back to my metaphor, the difference between someone going "you should use a 2.4mm posidrive for that 2.4mm posi-head screw" when a 2.5mm will work, and someone going "you should use a hammer, not the back of your screwdriver, to hammer a nail"
Like, former one is not gonna affect anything and it's being pedantic, the latter one you're actually being helpful.
Ain't nobody gonna decipher your nonsense
I understood it just fine. Does that make it good English?
~~Excuse me sir, are you impugning my English?~~
Xkus mi sar, arr yoo impunning mai Englees?
Don't be daft