> I've been lurking this (job hunting) thread and it's been very instructive 
> so far, but now this. If you start sending these jewels every day, you 
> will seriously compete with my daily dilbert e-mails. 8^)

I assure you that Dilbert has nothing to be afraid of, we don't do this sort 
of thing very often - maybe once every couple of months. :-)

> <snip>
>>
>> "I have passed experience..."
>>
> <snip>
>
> I can sense the author of such pearl is Brazilian? Beind one myself, I can 
> easily identify those types of mistakes, since I make the exact type of 
> mistakes (but not on my resume, of course).

Most of the applicants have typical American names, and the average 
immigrant seems to be neither better nor worse at spelling than the average 
American. This particular sort of error is actually more typical of native 
speakers - phonetically, "passed" and "past" are identical. The words "to", 
"too", and "two" all sound different only to foreigners. :-)

By the way, English is not my first language (in case it isn't obvious ;-).

Best regards,

Vitaliy 

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