>She might say, "Is everybody here?" I or my brother might answer something like, "Unlikely, the room isn't very big, after all."
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>Or she'd say, "Well, I myself feel that....", and of course we'd have to ask, "As opposed to you, somebody else?"

One of my favorites (not!) is "7 AM in the morning." That's as opposed to 7 AM in the evening?

Tamar