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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:35:38 -0400
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On 03/13/2015 09:24 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> sohcahtoa82@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>> We need more information than just "It doesn't work".  You wouldn't go to
>> a car mechanic and say "It makes a funny noise", would you?  No.
>
> Actually, most likely yes.It's remarkably hard to describe noises, and often
> difficult to pin-point where they come from. My wife and I can sit in the
> same car, listening to the same noise, and she swears it is coming from the
> front left and I'm sure its coming from the rear right. (Invariably she's
> correct.)
>
> But at least the car mechanic can jump in the car and take it for a drive.
>

Not if you don't take it to him.  If you just call him on the phone, and 
say "Jimmy doesn't work" he doesn't even know what make and model the 
vehicle is.  Or whether it's even a car.  Maybe "it" is a son who 
refuses to get a job.


-- 
DaveA