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It made the mental gymnastics easier for me
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I just thought that both LC and DA used these obfuscatory sentences to pass on information about the speaker not because the content of the sentence, esp in LC, was important.
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Maybe it's raining cats and dogs in New Zealand.
It very often is.
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Maybe it's raining cats and dogs in New Zealand.
It very often is.
You speak from experience? It certainly doesn't rain much in my part of the country.
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>You speak from experience? It certainly doesn't rain much in my part of the country.
I lived in Auckland for 5 years, and the weather there is schizophrenic. I think the song "Four Season's In One Day" isn't being poetical, just describing the weather.
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