Is it possible you are just not parsing what they are saying properly? Ie, in the "dad example", he literally said ~ "mysql isn't compatible with my machine". W

Is it possible you are just not parsing what they are saying properly? Ie, in the "dad example", he literally said ~ "mysql isn't compatible with my machine". What he was actually trying to communicate was probably "mysql isn't working on my machine". ie, give yourself a break, maybe you aren't trying to be clever, maybe you just aren't parsing meaning very well? It's sort of two phases - parse the literal words, then parse what they likely meant.