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27/06/2007 12:10:09
 
 
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27/06/2007 11:11:25
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Politics
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01235650
Message ID:
01236025
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>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>I guess there was more at stake. You didn't feel comfortable in his hands?
>>>
>>>The slight difference between health system and health industry, perhaps?
>>
>>Can you imagine looking into a bug report for 15 minutes only?
>
>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

Can you only imagine looking into a bug report for 15 minutes?

>- do the imagining for no more than 15 minutes then stop imagining

Can you imagine for only 15 minutes looking into a bug report ?

>- do nothing else for 15 minutes but look at the bug report

Can you imagine only [just would be better word for this context] looking into a bug report for 15 minutes ?

>- do nothing else to the bug report but just keep looking at it

??? You've gone off the boil here looking for discrepancies to such a point that this is pure pedantry

>- look for 15 minutes at nothing else but a bug report

Can you imagine looking into only a bug report for 15 minutes ?

>- any of the previous for fifteen of nothing else but minutes (not hours, not days)
>
>(thanks for inspiring the, so far, longest entry on my ambiguity page)
- 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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