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11/01/2007 12:15:09
 
 
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11/01/2007 11:40:51
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Politics
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>>>>And as you haven't put a "?" at the end of this sentence, how am I to know that you're not telling me to use ambiguous language. ("why" is also an interjection, like "marry" in shakespeare)
>>>>
>>>>"If we should meet again, we shall smile. If not, why then this parting is well made"
>>>
>>>Q.E.D.
>>
>>Quis erat demonstrandum? (What has been proved?)
>>
>>You accused me of ambiguity in an ambiguous question.
>
>Exactly - I had no idea that my question was ambiguous. Ambiguity is so omnipresent, I sometimes just stop in the middle of a sentence, looking for a word which won't possibly be misunderstood.

But it wasn't ambiguous except for the lack of question mark. You could write, in ANY language:

"You have been to the store" and without "?" it's a statement; with - a question.

>
>Watched a movie in Hungarian yesterday, just to see how much did I forget of the language. Ah, feels sooooo different. So don't mind me, I'm just a bit down for having returned into English.

I've never heard of language reversion depression before. I think you aught to lighten up!
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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