In plain words
Should such a mixing come about, there is the chance of this fellow being ruined to some extent.
A small story. In a village, in a good big bazaar, a man set up a fruit shop and wrote on it. "Good fruits sold here," he wrote. Everyone came along looking at the board. Among them a man with some cleverness came up to the board. "Whose board is this, sir? Who wrote it?" he asked. "There are words in this that have no meaning," he said. "Everyone knows it is here. Why should you write 'here'? Take out the word 'here'," he said. This shopkeeper thought a little: "Yes, that is quite true," he said. He called a painter and had it wiped off. Now what was left? Good fruits sold. Only three words were there. On the second day someone else came: What is this, sir? Have you put up this board to insult the buyers? Do the buyers not know good from bad? "Why should you write 'good fruits'? Take out this 'good'," he said. Do the buyers not know what is good and what is bad? They themselves will select. Why should you write "good"? "So you are belittling the buyers. Take it out," he said. All right: this fruit seller thought it over. True enough. He called the painter and had this word taken off. Now there were two words, "fruits sold". On the third day another man came. Do we not know these are fruits? Did you think they were coconuts, did you think they were brinjals? We know they are fruits, so why have you put up "fruits"? "Take that off," he said. This shopkeeper thought it over well. All right, he called the painter. He had that wiped off too. Now what remained was "sold". Another man came. What is this board, sir? Are you selling? What is "sold"? What are you selling? "Have you put up some board that has no meaning? Take it away," he said. All right, he called the painter. He had that wiped off too. A bare board was there. All right, on the third day someone else came: Why have you put up a board with nothing on it? There is not a word on it. "It is doing nothing; why this board?" he said. He took that too and put it inside. Then on the fourth day the painter came. "Sir, the bill for wiping off all these names comes to this much," he said. Then the shopkeeper thinks, they say: "Because I followed this one and that one like a madman, my board is gone. My name is gone. I have suffered a loss.