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Gee-minently, tsuwm--I...my mind just boggles, reading that.
Their entire country is being destroyed, and these feuding relatives are fighting, among other things, for the power to set up a toll road??? And for that reason, the other side (depending on the day, I guess) is given a victory.
I guess there's a reason we use the expression, "foreign to me". 'Cause I sure don't understand this--their whole value system.
Another thing--why do the media send female reporters in to a place where women are so looked down on??
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Nice one, tsuwm. This is precisely the kind of thing I was talking about in my earlier post. I can well understand Jackie's confusion about the way things are going in Afghanistan. It's not what is considered to be either normal or acceptable behaviour in more conservative societies like the US. Well, not publicly, anyway. But that's the way it is folks. Fungible or infungible ...  And, Jackie, women like to put themselves in harm's way, don't they? I mean, a lot of them are so careless of their own safety that they actually get married! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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An interesting tale, but not one to which the word "fungible" would apply,
in my estimation. The original meaning of "fungible" was that any ton of
wheat could satisfy a debt for which a ton of wheat had been pledged.
I see no way in which loyalty could be such a commodity.
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women like to put themselves in harm's way, don't they? I mean, a lot of them are so careless of their own safety that they actually get married! Yes--I'll have to see what SWMBO has to say about that...
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In reply to:
The original meaning of "fungible" was that any ton of
wheat could satisfy a debt for which a ton of wheat had been pledged.
I see no way in which loyalty could be such a commodity.
bill, while the situation is not precisely analogous, could I get you to agree that (in the article at least) loyalties seem to be bought and sold like a sack of grain?
and as to "the original meaning", well I can only say that I hope to see the day when we convince you that English is a fluid, protean, and vicissitudinous language!
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