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A noun that is formed from a verb and which describes an action. In English it ends in -ing, eg 'the baking of bread' and 'Smoking damages your health'.

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Flash! Aaaaahhhhh!

Typos, wrong word

Posted by GrammarBlog on 17th June, 2009

Flash! Aaaaahhhhh!, originally uploaded by GrammarBlog.

Look closely at this message from Adobe advising me to download the
newest flash player.

"We have detected that your missing or need to upgrade your flash
player"

Awful.

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4 Comments »

1. Everybody at adobe is a designer, you should know that designers can’t write.

   Comment by Dave — 17th June, 2009 @ 9:44 am

2. Christ on a bike.

   Comment by ade — 17th June, 2009 @ 10:08 am

3. Oh, Adobe is full of that stuff, even for technical things where they should know better. There’s one error message that comes up in the PDF viewer which says “This document contains javascripts…”
   Pisses me off every time I see it.

   Comment by Joel — 17th June, 2009 @ 5:26 pm

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