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I noticed your change to Concrete and thought "yeah... probable... logical, but unfortunately not right". The problem is that the word 'admixture' means both the thing being mixed into something, as well as the act of mixing it into something.
Originally it was
- It is then plasticized with admixture of plasticizer and mixed after that with aggregates in conventional mixer.
You figuring it was a typo changed to
- It is then plasticized with a mixture of plasticizer and mixed after that with aggregates in conventional mixer.
To change it sort of like you meant, you'd have to write
- It is then plasticized by mixing with plasticizer, and mixed after that with aggregates in conventional mixer.
But even more correct could be
- It is then plasticized by mixing plasticizer into it, and mixed after that with aggregates in conventional mixer.
Someone came up with a sorta shorthand way of saying this, "A with admixture of B". And it was used here so they _didn't_ have to say 'mix' twice in one sentence. At least not explicitly. (sigh) English! Veritable wars have been fought over small things like the serial comma! Shenme 08:09, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Oh dear. It's the attack of the lexicon again. In this case, I'll just leave it alone. Zian 08:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC) Zian
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If the page you edited is deleted, you also have many options available. Good luck! Ikip (talk) 00:52, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
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I have no idea what http://an.wikipedia.org is and cannot read their language. Unfortunately, an account with my username was created there somehow. Thankfully, I received a notification e-mail that had a familiar enough of a format for me to guess what it says. Since I can't read their language, I can't even leave a message in their Wikipedia embassy. I would like to delete the account in Wikipedia-AN. Zian (talk) 02:20, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
- It's the Aragonese Wikipedia. My advice would be, don't worry about it. I occasionally get Welcome messages in odd languages - actually I have a SUL unified login which means I automatically have accounts on every Wikimedia project, and it gives me no problems. Each Wikipedia is separate, so there is nothing we can do here: you could try leaving a reply message in English, but almost certainly the answer would be the same as we would give here: we don't delete accounts, if you don't want it, just don't use it. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:27, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
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