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  • Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

    My emphasis

    Purely as a point of information.

    The phrase "to come in for" as in to be subject to or eligible for something is not a euphemism. It is an idiom.
    Thank you, Ms. Grammar Nazi.

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    • Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

      Amusingly one or two you have alleged that, and yet when pressed to do so can offer no coherent explanation to explain, or indeed justify, the contention that what I wrote "was part of very poor communication."
      That is a very convoluted, and poorly punctuated run-on sentence.

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      • Originally posted by Sparko View Post

        Thank you, Ms. Grammar Nazi.
        You could have checked it for yourself.
        "It ain't necessarily so
        The things that you're liable
        To read in the Bible
        It ain't necessarily so
        ."

        Sportin' Life
        Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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        • Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post
          yes, they are.
          No they are not because they are not privy to what you are thinking, and what you specifically intended by what you wrote. Only you know that.

          "It ain't necessarily so
          The things that you're liable
          To read in the Bible
          It ain't necessarily so
          ."

          Sportin' Life
          Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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          • Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
            No they are not because they are not privy to what you are thinking, and what you specifically intended by what you wrote. Only you know that.
            They don't need to be privy to my private thoughts to understand what is written. If that was required then no one could ever have any sort of discussion ever.

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            • Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

              You could have checked it for yourself.
              I am just too lazy I guess.

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              • Originally posted by Sparko View Post

                That is a very convoluted, and poorly punctuated run-on sentence.
                That's my job.

                I'm always still in trouble again

                "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                • Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

                  I didn't turn anything into a "kerfuffle". Your "buddy" ...
                  Awwwww, you're jealous.. poor little has no "buddies".

                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post

                    False. I clarified it as did numerous other posters.
                    over and over and over.
                    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                    • Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

                      You could have checked it for yourself.
                      How? How could he have checked it for himself? After all, as you inform us in the next post, he would be "not privy to what you are thinking, and what you specifically intended by what you wrote. Only you know that." So how can he check it for himself if that's the case? If he went and looked it up in the dictionary, how would he know that is what you specifically intended by what you wrote, as he is not privy to what you are thinking? So how could he check it for himself? You really can't keep consistency from one post to the next. Pathetic.

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                      • Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post

                        How? How could he have checked it for himself? After all, as you inform us in the next post, he would be "not privy to what you are thinking, and what you specifically intended by what you wrote. Only you know that." So how can he check it for himself if that's the case? If he went and looked it up in the dictionary, how would he know that is what you specifically intended by what you wrote, as he is not privy to what you are thinking? So how could he check it for himself? You really can't keep consistency from one post to the next. Pathetic.
                        Just more ing on her part.
                        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                        • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post

                          Just more ing on her part.
                          Lazy ing at that.

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                          • Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post

                            How? How could he have checked it for himself? After all, as you inform us in the next post, he would be "not privy to what you are thinking, and what you specifically intended by what you wrote. Only you know that." So how can he check it for himself if that's the case? If he went and looked it up in the dictionary, how would he know that is what you specifically intended by what you wrote, as he is not privy to what you are thinking? So how could he check it for himself? You really can't keep consistency from one post to the next. Pathetic.
                            There was nothing to prevent Sparko checking online to ascertain whether the phrase I used i.e. "come in for" was in fact what he thought it was I.e. a euphemism. Had he done so he would have discovered that it is an idiom.

                            "It ain't necessarily so
                            The things that you're liable
                            To read in the Bible
                            It ain't necessarily so
                            ."

                            Sportin' Life
                            Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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                            • Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

                              There was nothing to prevent Sparko checking online to ascertain whether the phrase I used i.e. "come in for" was in fact what he thought it was I.e. a euphemism. Had he done so he would have discovered that it is an idiom.
                              How could he check it? He was "not privy to what you are thinking, and what you specifically intended by what you wrote. Only you know that."

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                              • Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

                                There was nothing to prevent Sparko checking online to ascertain whether the phrase I used i.e. "come in for" was in fact what he thought it was I.e. a euphemism. Had he done so he would have discovered that it is an idiom.
                                Or you could have been more clear. It's ALWAYS "the other guy".
                                The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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