>>>If you are looking for something truly shocking in what she posted, I don't think you'll find what you are looking for. But she has gone out of her way to antagonize some people.
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>>I too appear to 'antagonize some people'. So I have added a new line to my signature. :)
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>Note that the European meaning of "eventual" is "what it can be in the end", "as is also possible" - IOW, one of the possible cases or turns of the current subject - is different from the American (wouldn't know about British) English meaning, where "eventually" means "in the end".
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>Don't know why, but many Europeans don't notice this difference.
Ah, isn't this a really beautiful example of a word which appears to have an entirely different meaning in English than in Dutch, German and French!
Dutch: eventueel
German: eventuell
French: éventuel
English: possible, possibly
English: eventual, eventually
Dutch: ooit
French: un jour
German: ehemals
Thanks for having made me aware of this and I'll gonna change that signature right away. I will have to remember this one, because I use it many times.
You native speakers must sometimes be puzzled by what we non-native speakers write here. :)
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