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F: I really can’t understand you saying these photocopiers are unreliable. It certainly hasn’t been my experience. I’ve been using one for over a year and it’s never given me any trouble at all. Whatever else you say about them, you must admit they’re far more reliable than most other computers.

M: I do think you ought to get o laptop for your business. It would do most of the routine tasks in a tenth of the time you spend on them now. Then you’d soon wonder how on earth you ever managed without one.