Arminius
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Post by Arminius on Nov 7, 2005 19:39:09 GMT
For closing, I want only thank Natmus, Inyati and SkulkrinBait. And the rest of us, what, stink or something?!? I must say I agree. What kind of open discussion is this when you've had enough you restrict your thanks to those people who you think agreed with you? However, the placement of 'only' is very significant here, and as most of us are not native speakers of English we shouldn't put too much emphasis on small things like that.
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Post by Starshatter on Nov 7, 2005 19:41:11 GMT
And the rest of us, what, stink or something?!? I must say I agree. What kind of open discussion is this when you've had enough you restrict your thanks to those people who you think agreed with you? However, the placement of 'only' is very significant here, and as most of us are not native speakers of English we shouldn't put too much emphasis on small things like that. I agree. We may be reading too much into just a syntax error.
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lyrypryl
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Post by lyrypryl on Nov 8, 2005 5:07:43 GMT
And the rest of us, what, stink or something?!? I must say I agree. What kind of open discussion is this when you've had enough you restrict your thanks to those people who you think agreed with you? However, the placement of 'only' is very significant here, and as most of us are not native speakers of English we shouldn't put too much emphasis on small things like that. I see that Arminius understood the meaning of my sentence, but not the reason of my thanks. I wrote "For closing, I want only to thank Natmus, Inyati and SkulkrinBait", not "I want to thank only Natmus, Inyati and SkulkrinBait". Perun. The meaning of the two sentences is different. The first sentence could be also written as "I want just to thank...", "I want simply to thank..." The second sentence makes instead a discrimination, like when we want to thank somebody but not other people. I wrote the first, not the second. The reason for saying thank to them is not only because these three persons supported my ideas in this forum, but also because they offered me resources and help. Aren't these good reasons to thank them? I think they are.
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Perun
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Post by Perun on Nov 8, 2005 11:05:03 GMT
IIRC, I offered help and resources as well. And I don't need your gratitude. Just as much respect as anybody else. 'Nuff said.
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