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Correct

Posted on Monday 5 November 2018Monday 21 January 2019 by Resource Centre

A man using this Chinese ATM pressed the Correct button three times and the machine swallowed his card.

He thought Correct was being used as an adjective, but it was a verb!

  • correct (adjective) = right; OK; with no mistakes
  • correct (verb) = remove mistakes; revise; change something which is wrong, to make it right

Source: Language Log

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Tags: China, funny, translation

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