In Reply to: Bartering posted by Kia60aus on Tuesday, 16. November 2004 at 13:45 Bali Time:
...if I offended you...relax man, it was just a tease. As they say "Some of my best friends are ...(fill in the blank)." I, personally, get teased quite often for my accent, and for sometime bringing into an English conversation a word from my mother tongue. It's all in good fun.
But I had seen this confusion between the two words so many times on this forum, each time generating a big string; I had to let off some steam.