>>He wasn't actually talking about cars, but rather how a question never gets answered directly, or rarely anyway. The car was just an example.
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>My english poor but I could undestand him. My problem not with long sentences. Because you can got long sentences. But sometimes you (english spoken people) just write a short sentence and I can't undestand if use a dictionary...
...because most of English words change their meaning, depending on context. Long sentence gives you context, short one may mean many things. Just look at the ambiguity link in my signature.
A brief list of words used in the above paragraph:
- "most" - can be used when comparing adjectives ("most green") or as "majority of"
- English - adjective or a person
- change - can be a verb (to mean any of "cause to be different than before", "replace", "undress and put something else on") or a noun ("difference from previous state", "small money")
- depending - being implied by something else, relying on other's support
- sentence - a group of words expressing a thought; a legal verdict
- just - can also mean fair, righteous