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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Which phone do you use or recommand?
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What oil do you recommand for best result?
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I recommand you the camolille iced tea
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Do You Recommand an OPTIMIZEDB after a USERMOD or after MODIFY or Index Creation ?
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Best racing game to recommand
im quite bored of games currently. anybody got a racing game they can recommand thats got action and that stands out of the normal racing genra. thanks
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very cool, very nice, I recommand this hostel, good people in a good place
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Can anyone recommand a Radius server, we have a Cisco VPN 3015 & using the internal database which limits adding users…
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May be a misspelling in many cases, but I think it’s very plausible that some would reanalyze the word as a form of “command”. The understanding would be something like “Again, I insist that you try [this restaurant/solution/movie/etc.].”
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Interesting. Some of these might be French speakers; there’s no “commend” left in that language, as far as I know. The roots of recommend and command in French and English are eggcornishly twisted:
recommend (v.)
late 14c., “praise, present as worthy,” from Medieval Latin recommendare, from Latin re-, here probably an intensive prefix, or else from a sense now obscure (see re-), + commendare “commit to one’s care, commend” (see commend). Meaning “advise as to action, urge (that something be done)” is from 1746.
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command (v.)
c. 1300, “order or direct with authority” (transitive), from Old French comander “to order, enjoin, entrust” (12c., Modern French commander), from Vulgar Latin * commandare, from Latin commendare “to recommend, entrust to” (see commend); altered by influence of Latin mandare “to commit, entrust” (see mandate (n.)).
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