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Another Ambiguous US Expression
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31/05/2007 10:45:31
 
 
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31/05/2007 10:41:50
Dragan Nedeljkovich (En ligne)
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Zrenjanin, Serbia
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>>>Just like they have "subpoenaed" a witness... what, "underpunished"? Because "sub poena" means literally that, "under punishment".
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>>Ah, but I guess the implication is; "Come and be a witness - under punishment of imprisonment if you fail"
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>That surely is the implication, but they made "under punishment" a transitive verb :).

I dig that in English though. Like "This process will take too long so I'll over-night it", or "Just for once I'd like to eat lunch in a restaurant; I'm sick of brown-bagging"
- 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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