>>>I think I'm farsighted because I can see far - I can read the street name a dozen meters before I have to switch lanes, and I can still read license plates across the street. I'm shortblinded now, though - anything closer than a meter (at lower light - make that about 60cm outside) is blurry.
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>>Thought of you the other day when I heard the following on the radio: "It's about one man's escape from Laos during Vietnam."
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>Um... can't see how it relates to me, except the grammar thingy. Though, usage of "Vietnam" as a temporal adverb used to be quite common. We quite commonly say "during Sloba" - so I probably would not even notice anything wrong in that sentence.

The one that gets me is political reporting: "People are obviously enraged by this but so far Downing Street is keeping quiet" or "... Washington offered no explanation"