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From
12/03/2010 08:29:33
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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11/03/2010 19:01:44
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Forum:
News
Category:
International
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01453082
Message ID:
01454143
Views:
32
>>>>"More than 20 special operations forces are in Pakistan to train the Frontier Corps" - how many soldiers is "20 forces"? The military something surely has weird units of measure. Up to now, it was 1 troop (also an unknown number of people per one), now it's 1 force.
>>>
>>>Did you know there are 2 scoops of raisins in a package of Kellogg's Raisin Bran?
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>>My pursuit of knowledge never got that far.
>>
>>I fail to grasp the wisdom... can you enlighten me?
>
>It's like you asking, "How many soldiers is 20 'forces'"? Just how many raisins are in "2 scoops"?
>
>Both are examples of the deliberate dissemination and marketing of imprecision.

In that light, one question remains: when they say "20 forces", what are they selling?

back to same old

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