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Originally Posted By: FaldageOriginally Posted By: jenny jennyYes sirree, Faldage, context is our friend. But so is logic.
There are so many things that trump logic in language use. Logic comes in about three levels after last sometimes.
Strange. You not being a woman and you understand this.
But, again, language serves to delimit as it describes. And the two sentences in question order the spacial relationship between chairs and space differently.
Why -you being a man- didn't you understand this?
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