>>>>Must have been a best seller <g>. I bet if he rear-ended you, you could find a lawyer who would sew the author of the book <g>
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>>>Accidentally, "to sew someone" in our slang back home means "beat him dead in a card game". Though I assume you had a different game in mind, with a similar outcome :).
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>>I meant "sue". This is the peculiarity of English where words with different meanings are spelled the same <g>
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>Yes, the meaning is derived from the context of the sentence. It's to confuse people in other lands. ;-)
I remember once seeing in a movie where in France or someplace about to be occupied they took down or switched around all the road signs to confuse invaders. I figured that is what my ancestors did with English spelling to make it inscrutable to furriners. <s> ( I would bet Chinese orthography did more to protect the middle kingdom than the great wall )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
