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27/06/2007 12:57:12
 
 
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27/06/2007 12:44:13
Dragan Nedeljkovich (En ligne)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Politics
Catégorie:
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Titre:
Divers
Thread ID:
01235650
Message ID:
01236044
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>>>- 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
>
>Well no, you've actually confirmed by your interjections that the rule should be the same as in Serbian - the word "only" is actually a prefix to whatever it qualifies. And "can you only open that file" can quite well be understood as "and do nothing else to it".
>
>There was a pop song decades ago, where the chorus went "volela tebe samo sam ja" - "loved you only did I", which is equivalent to none but "only I did love you" (implying "nobody else did"). Another possible wrong position would be "I only loved you" (but didn't feed you, cheer you or pay you).
>
>IOW, we need to be careful about this.

But we can use the word "just" which only has ONE "only" meaning: "apart from anyone/thing else".

Of course it can also mean, "it happened a moment ago" and "right"/"correct"/"fair" but you can avoid that by the context.

"Last" is a funny one: it can mean the end one in chain or the one that just happened. I used this pun in our first gig: "No matter how it goes, tommorrow we'll still be able to refer to this as our last gig".

The French have the same 2 meanings to "dernier" but get round this by the position in the sentence:

"La derniere foie" - the time before this
"La foie derniere" - there will be no further times after this.
- 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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