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Originally posted by Amail
I find the verb "to be" overused. I don't know why, it just bugs me when my computer says "Please wait while your disk is being formatted". Why not "Please wait while your disk is formatted"?
Could be worse, it could say:
"Please do wait while your disk is being formatted".
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