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Voted to close this question as a duplicate

Also that one, but perhaps I'm assuming too much, or it's a version of that one

@Zanna I'm not sure. I've posted a "maybe related" comment in case it is a version of that.

thanks :)

Dupe (see comments).

this question looks like OP was overly cautious. I don't see any evidence of a problem. Am I missing something? If not, the answer is basically correct...

Well, when they tried to just proceed with the installation, it didn't work.

oh haha why didn't I notice that

hmm I guess it's not possible to tell what the real problem is there from the information given

Is there a dupe target for this question? It's clearly related to this one...

OT Kali Linux

VTC'd

Dupe - "Official list of supported hardware"

I guess this question is answerable... not sure how it should be approached. But not closed, I think?

@Zanna, I just followed your lead on a "vote as duplicate" (askubuntu.com/q/1018105/117103), but after that I looked at the target: IMO the answers don't fit the question in any way - much less the Q we dupe voted - do I overlook something obvious?

Oh hmm

I wouldn't know... do you know a different reason for/solution to this problem?

there was this question earlier

no, but as I see it the dupe target (askubuntu.com/q/85216/117103) is about playback speed and both answers talk about sound, wrong output ..., So my real question is: what is the matter there?

maybe the question should be closed as unclear instead?

I really don't know ... it looks like the SE database mixed up two different "threads". In the Q there is no word about audio / both A talk exclusively about audio or output device.

I should have read the whole post, I kind of assumed it was the one the other question was getting voted to close against earlier :/

@guntbert what do you think we should do? just reopen? That post is surely at least a dupe of something else if not unclear? We could flag it for mod attention to get the dupe banner edited, but maybe we should wait for OP... Maybe a comment will be sufficient for now, but saying what?

irrelevantly (and I guess this isn't really a moderation issue), I wonder why people whose L1 is not English so often use (or attempt to use) the verb "face" with the noun "problem" when writing posts on Ask Ubuntu. There are so many ways this could go wrong and I don't think people whose L1 is English ever says "face" with "problem" rather than using "have", though we might write it sometimes for emphasis or readability or variety...

Are ESOL teachers/courses advising that this is the only correct way to talk about experiencing a problem?

Or does it just stick in people's minds...

Another thing I notice is that people are incredibly eager to use the present perfect, which is decidedly odd considering that it's really hard IMHO to explain when and why it's appropriate or necessary to use the present perfect

Maybe people are so traumatised by their experience of learning the present perfect that they can't get it out of their heads

I occasionally convert something to the present perfect when editing, but for every one time I do that, there must be at least 20 times I convert a present perfect construction to a past simple or present continuous construction...

grammar rant over...

@Zanna Do you mean phrasing like, "The problem I am facing is that..." and "But then I faced a new problem..."?

yes, that is what I mean

I don't have any problem with such phrasing

but it is so often done wrong, like "I've faced with a problem"

and I find it interesting that it's so common here

when it's more difficult (and longer) than the more common (elsewhere, for example in spoken British English) way to talk about problems using "have"

@Zanna i can tell you it is based in their L1 language, I'm not native english and I use this term facing and problem together because the German translation for that fits close. (but i can only speak for German)

Ah thanks for that insight! I wondered if that might be the case too

Well i try at least not to overuse it. So i often simply make it a headline 'Problem:' instead

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@Videonauth hahaha sounds like many question titles

:)

well i not put that in the title

Yeah, I didn't mean questions by you, or particularly by people whose L1 is another language than English.

People who are new to the site often write very generic titles

as always :) generic titles are not bad, they cover the titles we older users cant even imagine, even if its only for a dupe close

@Videonauth another point (also for German): "I have a problem" sound a bit like a "germanism" (using English words but German syntax and grammar) -- we say "ich habe ein Problem" ; but for the life of me I cannot find the German translation you are thinking of for "facing a problem"

@guntbert I sehe hier ein Problem das auftritt.

from seeing the problem happening to facing a problem is a short way

especially when you translate on the fly and are not very skilled

or: Ich stehe hier vor einem Problem.

and a translation, "I stand here in front of a problem" well sounds wrong somehow

So like i do is going to the closest phrase I can imagine and making "Im facing a problem here"

@Videonauth this sounds good -- in both directions, well done.

well, German is my L1

english is only my secondary language

@Videonauth the same here -- I guess my location is more southwards than yours

guess so if you speak of south, im in NRW here, about 20 minutes afar from venlo/NL

20 car minutes

I am in about the same distance from the Slovenian border - Graz

yeah ok then i'm far far more north :D

@Zanna it might be useful to flag both for mod ... or flag one and mention the other

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