04-22-2008, 09:28 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Boston
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Originally Posted by crestwood33
Should he sell before the new president (liberal) wins? The wrote a loss of 42 million. Pass the Vaseline
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That's because they lost 42 million. Anything else?
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JMS gets another English lesson:
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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.
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The result:
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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.
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