>>>>>My surgery was completed and the surgeon said he got it all. Two years later he tells me I needed to start other treatment because I wasn't cured. I dumped him right a way.
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>>>>I guess there was more at stake. You didn't feel comfortable in his hands?
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>>>The slight difference between health system and health industry, perhaps?
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>>Can you imagine looking into a bug report for 15 minutes only?
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>English is horrible with the positioning of "only" - and in Serbian there's a good rule about where the word would go (and how would the meaning of the sentence change depending on where you put it), but people always mislay it. The resulting sentence is pretty much open to interpretation. So... what did you mean:
>
>- do nothing else but only imagine, keep so for 15 minutes
>- do the imagining for no more than 15 minutes then stop imagining
>- do nothing else for 15 minutes but look at the bug report
>- do nothing else to the bug report but just keep looking at it
>- look for 15 minutes at nothing else but a bug report
>- any of the previous for fifteen of nothing else but minutes (not hours, not days)
Uuhh, let me see... How about:
Can you imagine: Looking into (that is, researching) a bug report for no more than 15 minutes?
>(thanks for inspiring the, so far, longest entry on my ambiguity page)
You're welcome.
Groet,
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