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Other => Other => Topic started by: Computer Hope Admin on September 01, 2009, 01:22:27 AM
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For the month of September we thought it would be interesting to see how much of your primary hard disk drive you're using. Feel free to comment on how big your primary hard disk drive is, how much total space you're using if you've got multiple drives, talk about freeing disk space, etc.
If you need help determining how much disk space your hard drive is using see the below link.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000369.htm
All past monthly polls and results can also be found on the Computer Hope poll page (http://www.computerhope.com/polls.htm).
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Out of 160GB on my laptop, ~60GB being used.
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out of 450 or so GB on my primary partition, 241GB is used.
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Primary drive is 500GB, used space: 20.2GB.
I fall neatly between two poll options, haha.
I'm voting for 6-20GB though, as if I clean up the junk on here it'll be less than 20GB.
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Out of 110gb on my laptop 81.4gb being used. That reminds me I need to do some housekeeping.
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My HDD on my primary PC is big. I chose it so my primary PC becomes my main server, I use a old Dell Dimension PC as a test server, and I build a new PC.
My Primary PC costed $700.
My Next PC will be only $600.
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why'd my post get removed?
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My HDD on my primary PC is big. I chose it so my primary PC becomes my main server, I use a old Dell Dimension PC as a test server, and I build a new PC.
My Primary PC costed $700.
My Next PC will be only $600.
Why?
1. My Primary PC's costs included Windows.
2. My Next PC's costs will not include Windows.
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Waaaah! I can't answer the poll right now. I'll check my drive space once I get home.
Question... Is the partition will consider or just the whole size of my HDD?
For my Machine 1:
500GB Samsung SATA HDD (partitioned)
C: Total Size is 195GB, Used Space is 16.0GB, Free Space is 179GB
D: Total Size is 195GB, Used Space is 17.7GB, Free Space is 177GB
E: Total Size is 75.1GB, Used Space is 3.83GB, Free Space is 71.2GB
As you can see on my specs, I have two HDD for my Machine 2.
For my Machine 2:
40GB Seagate Barracuda - Used Space is 10.3GB. Free Space is 26.9GB
40GB Seagate Barracuda - Used Space is 26.0GB. Free Space is 11.2GB
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217GB out of 500GB.
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Out of 320 GB, 28.7 GB is used.
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145/160 gb used
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wow i just looked on mine 700gb out of 1.5tb used. LOL IM A PACK RAT!!!!!
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I use about 7GB out of 40.
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80 gb 3 gb free ;D
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80 gb 3 gb free
Windows needs at least 15% of a free space...
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According to smeeze you only need 1MG....
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Oh, I'm sorry.... :P
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No Problem...just thought i'd bring you up to speed... ;)
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You meant, up to size?... :P
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23.1 GB out of 74.4 GB
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Too much free space :P
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yeah, 3 gb free. Im really clearing everything out, though
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23.1 GB out of 74.4 GB
Yeah, too much free space!!
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Currently I'm using 178GB out of a total 271GB. Most of that space is taken up by music and games. Games these days take up ridiculous amounts space.
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let's see... I'm using 74.6 out 140 GB.
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Games these days take up ridiculous amounts space.
Unfortunately that's the nature of the beast. You could always go back to playing Pacman.
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Unfortunately that's the nature of the beast. You could always go back to playing Pacman.
I still play my classic (runs in Dos but still works on Vista) Pacman often.
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using 181 GB out of 230 GB on my main HDD.
and using 370 GB out of 465 GB on my secondary HDD.
The reason it's so high is because I do lots of media and run lots of virtual machines. :)
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18.6 and i have 4.43 left why is that you get less gigibytes than what the product shows i also had an mp3 player that said 2 and was only 1.8
what do you mean only 15 percent i had my computer under 700 mb which is under 8 percent and it ran great
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18.6 and i haxe 4.43 left why is that you get less gigibytes than what the product shows i also had an mp3 player that said 2 and was only 1.8
what do you mean only 15 percent i had my computer under 700 mb which is under 8 percent
Here's why:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/patio/CHope/HDDsizes.jpg)
hart Courtesy of Western Digital.
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i see what he ment now he said 80 i didn't think about that it was actually 76 and you can't have 77 gigibytes on a 76 gigibyte hardrive
i originally thought he ment to say lets say you really have a hundred gigibyte hardrive i thought he was saying you couldn't go under 15gb
it's actually 7 percent under what the product sas
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The 7% is not a constant if you do the math...a good approximation though.
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it's because the computer measures a kilobyte as 1024 bytes, a megabyte as 1024 kilobytes, and so on, and the HD manufacturers sell them using standard metric (powers of 10) (so a KB is 1000 bytes, a MB is 1000 KB, etc.
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I've got you all covered.. Out of a whopping 40 GB, ~20 is free ;D
Although I do have 30 GB hard drive that I dedicate as a file server, but I can't keep it in my system until I add an extra fan, it runs too hot sitting right next to the other drive...
Mark my words, when I get some extra cash I'm going to build a custom system with bigger drives and I will control the world >>:
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10gb 10.000.000.000 10gb 9.69 6.69 percemt
20gb 20.000.000.000 20gb 18.6 6.75 percent
30gb 30.000.000.000 30gb 27.94 6.68666666666666666666666666666667 percent to be exact
100gb 100.000.000.000 100gb 93,13 6.87
500gb 500.000.000.000 500gb 465,65 6.87
100gb 1.000.000.000.000 1000gb 931.30 6.87 also
I did the math here are the exact numbers for different gigibytes didn't have the time to do them all but most average out to be around 6.87
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@876543219
also the file system eats some of the space up
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10gb 10.000.000.000 10gb 9.69 6.69 percemt
20gb 20.000.000.000 20gb 18.6 6.75 percent
30gb 30.000.000.000 30gb 27.94 6.68666666666666666666666666666667 percent to be exact
100gb 100.000.000.000 100gb 93,13 6.87
500gb 500.000.000.000 500gb 465,65 6.87
100gb 1.000.000.000.000 1000gb 931.30 6.87 also
I did the math here are the exact numbers for different gigibytes didn't have the time to do them all but most average out to be 6.87
It's not an arithmetic constant.
What about- say- 400 Yottabytes?
483,570,327,845,852,000,000,000,000 bytes according to a PC
400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes if there was a 400TB HD manufactured.
approx. 20% difference.
the reason for this difference has been explained. there simply is no "average" and like most "rules of thumb" woefully inaccurate.
10GB according to a PC is 10*1024*1024*1024, or 10,737,418,240 bytes.
However hard drives are sold differently- a 10GB drive will likely actually be 10,000,000,000 bytes.
EDIT:
last nitpick:
6.68666666666666666666666666666667 percent to be exact
No, to be exact would require infinite 6's.
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@bc_programmer
technically the computers are correct on the size and people just use 1000 because its easier
No, to be exact would require infinite 6's.
no thats impossable
there maybe billions or even trillions of 6's but not infinite
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On my laptop, 36.29GB free of an 80GB drive. Since the formatted capacity is actually about 74.5GB, used space is less than 40GB. I believe my desktop computer would also fall in the 21 - 40 GB category, also an 80GB drive.
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thats because whatever you calculated it on ran out of variable capicity
also my 486 computer is 100/235MB
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it's not infinite 6s there is a 7 after 30 6s
yes. It is.
try 2/3 in calculator.
it gives me
0.66666666666666666666666666666667
but the real answer is .6 repeating.
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your right i tried an online calculator and it said 7 only after 12 6s
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the 7, is from rounding, since the calculator or whatever is being used can only have a certain number of significant digits.
Now that we're all up to speed on arithmetic... ;D
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About 150 of my 750
my computer apps teacher said that you would never use more then 100gb :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Out of 110gb on my laptop 81.4gb being used. That reminds me I need to do some housekeeping.
You need a better hard drive.
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You need a better hard drive.
Why exactly? Quite happy with the one I have thanks. ::)
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Using 12 GB, free space 137 GB.
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Using rougly 5/6GB on my 160GB HD.
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Out of over 600g only around 57 is used xD ::)
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Out of 35gb, a lot is being used. Hey can a 1-time INSTALL copy of XP flush computers still? My mom's fiancé got a copy from Tiger Direct and the guy said you can only install it once.
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Out of 35gb, a lot is being used. Hey can a 1-time INSTALL copy of XP flush computers still? My mom's fiancé got a copy from Tiger Direct and the guy said you can only install it once.
i doubt its true
microsoft clears there database evrey 3 months
so you can install it infinite times as long as you wait 3 months apart
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Out of 35gb, a lot is being used. Hey can a 1-time INSTALL copy of XP flush computers still? My mom's fiancé got a copy from Tiger Direct and the guy said you can only install it once.
there is no such thing as a "one time install" copy of XP.
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54 of 232gig used
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ive installed around 10-15 with the same cd and key
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ive installed around 10-15 with the same cd and key
Is this hard disk loading?
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yes
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yes
hmmm... Ok no comment. LOL.
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i doubt its true
microsoft clears there database evrey 3 months
so you can install it infinite times as long as you wait 3 months apart
This is complete rubbish.
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Well I just got a new laptop from work so I guess I need to update.
I now have 57g used out of 160g
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This is complete rubbish.
cant say till you try
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I'll stand by what i posted...rubbish.
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Yes. It's made up on the fly crap that has absolutely no basis in fact.
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What about using grammar loop-holes, eh BC ;)
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ive installed around 10-15 with the same cd and key
I was told you could only install 3 times with one XP disc unless it was an illegal copy?
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nope
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C: Used space = 15.8 GB
Free space = 26.9 GB
Capacity = 42.8 GB
D: Used space = 15.2 GB
Free space = 86.9 GB
Capacity = 102 GB
E: Used space = 22.5 GB
Free space = 65.3 GB
Capacity = 87.8 GB
Used space= C+D+E=15.8+15.2+22.5= 53.5 GB
Free space = C+D+E=26.9+86.9+65.3= 179,1 GB
Capacity =C+D+E=42.8+102+87.8 = 232,6 GB
Cheers.
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320 GB on my main hard drive. It's not enough. I've also got a 60 GB slave drive and a 500 GB external. I'm hoping to eventually get a 2TB HDD to use as my main drive.
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35gb used in 50gb system partition
30gb used in 50gb 2nd system partition
45gb used in 135gb data partition
270gb used in 500gb image drive
By the way, if you are still storing all of your data on your system partition, don't. If you ever need to restore your system, it's a lot less of a headache if all of your important data is on a separate drive or partition.
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Good advice Michael...
Although unfortunately most who land here have never thought out a good backup strategy.
Nature of the Beast.
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C: (NTFS) 76308 MB (60548 MB free)
No backups here and still running like a clock after I guess about 7 years.
W2K, no hoops, no crashes, no worries. ;D
Soes anyone know if there is somewhere in Windows to check the 'uptime'?
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Admin Tools possibly
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I can't remember if it was in W2K or XP's task manager, but I know that Vista shows uptime in the task manager's performance tab.
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Sorry for misleading you but what I was looking for was the OS install date which I just found by looking at the C:\winnt directory properties.
Monday, November 17, 2003, 8:59:17 PM
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ahh, that works for that :)
a nice old install :)
not as old as my PC-DOS install on my recently failed laptop, Dec. 1996 :o
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105GB Total, 35.6GB Free, 70GB Used.
Running Ubuntu, but I am still being a pack-rat about my music... (though, I have seen plenty of people with considerably more than what I have)
Lots of old movies as well.
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Good to see you back Zylstra ! !
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I said that about 3 times for all his random posts then he disappears again
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Vista (C:): 7.03 GB free of 74.2 GB
Data (D:): 63.0 GB free of 73.3 GB
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Good to see you back Zylstra ! !
Just for a moment, and then I'll be gone again ;)
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like always :'( :'( :'( :'(
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Vista (C:): 7.03 GB free of 74.2 GB
And kpac...Vista is giving you no issues ? ?
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on my 500gb hdd, 30 used
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And kpac...Vista is giving you no issues ? ?
Nope, not a bit. I can't really figure out why, though. Everything works perfect.
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Good news indeed...
What's your pagefile set to ? ?
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2345 MB
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2345 MB
Nice, for Vista this is really good disk usage economy(as far as space)
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i think it should be optimum around 25 gb which should only contain important sytem files to run the computer and not games........ ;D
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Not sure what you're saying here as all programs use the swapfile...
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Perhaps he means just leave a good amount of free space for the system.
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He does, but hes completely wrong. If you have a 750gb drive why would you only use 25? Hes been making tons of posts with bad info.
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I think he's saying that 25GB is good enough to run a computer without filling it with a bunch of games and programs.
Hes been making tons of posts with bad info.
You don't have much room to talk, do you?
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I think he's saying that 25GB is good enough to run a computer without filling it with a bunch of games and programs.
That is what I make out that he is saying is that you only need a 25 GB for the basics without games. I use a 20 GB HDD in my PC.
Hes been making tons of posts with bad info.
He only made one post saying that you only need 25 GB's for the basics. How is that tons of posts?
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He had around 20 all with bad info. They got deleted though
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Where do you get your info from ? ?
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My head
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That's what i was afraid of...
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Why, where do you get yours from?
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Let's not have this discussion.
All information has a source.
My head
And it is more than likely not your head.
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Out of 38.2 GB 24.4GB are used leaving only 13.8GB free. That cant be good I need to do some cleaning i guess
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i am using 169GB out of 320GB. I also have a 80GB HD for System recoveries, or when i need to format my computer.
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They got deleted though
That's not true. You have an odd imagination.
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I know he has like 22 posts, and now he has like... woa 22
I know he has 22, then he has 11 and is now back to around 22
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My only explanation is that you must've been seeing things. To the best of my knowledge, none of his posts have been deleted, although it wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea.
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Cat-bomb needs computing space, Cat-bomb has 170 gigs used on a 250 gig hard drive, Cat-bomb is saving his money to buy a new hard drive for Cat-bomb.
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Why the third person?
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37.4 GB used out of 320 GB 8) because my Labtop is new ::) .
Hey all, I am new here & this is the first message to write..
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Why the third person?
Just for fun. ;D
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I did that in 5th grade and really made the teachers mad. O:)
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So the Teachers didn't understand third person ? ?
Or was it what you wrote possibly ? ?
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I was talking that way and it annoyed them
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So the Teachers didn't understand third person ? ?
Or was it what you wrote possibly ? ?
Maybe they weren't English teachers :D