I used to use ATM's that are located outside a financial institution's building. However, I learned that somebody could attach a device to the ATM and record a customer's ATM card number and PIN, using that information to withdraw money from the customer's accounts. As such, I always use ATM's that are located inside a financial institution that are in full view of bank employees.
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One way for a person to find out that he or she is doing something incorrectly is to be informed by others. If they never know they’re incorrect, they’re much less likely to ever make decisions as to what to do about it.
I have an unusually strong penchant to speak and write properly, correctly, effectively. That’s not only in my native English language, but in any and all languages that I know. If and when I err, which does happen just as often as many other non-native speakers, I always appreciate being informed of it so that I can steer toward more accurate use of the language. For years, there have been a myriad of foreign words, conjugations, expressions, idiomatic speech, etc. that I have said or written incorrectly without ever knowing I was wrong. I’m well aware that NUMEROUS people consider it rude, insensitive, demeaning, uncouth, bad manners to ever inform any person for any reason or in any situation to inform another that he or she said or wrote something incorrectly. I am of a different opinion on that, expressly based on what I stated above about speaking and writing correctly. I would much rather know I am incorrect and be given the chance to decide than to sound or write as if I’m stupid or ignorant of the languages’ or worse yet, that I don’t care.
If I knew about my errors as soon as I commit them, I could have the opportunity to improve. It is a disservice to me to be left uninformed of them, because all I’ll do is repeat them.
None of what I’ve written here is an attempt to tell you how or what you should do when you’re informed that you’ve erred in your use of English. I merely want to present a differing perspective on the issue. I think it’s one thing for a person to have a ready explanation as to why his or her errors occur, it’s quite another to see if there’s growth based on information of a better way to do something.
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