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- From: briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Presently
- Message-ID: <8311@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: 18 Jan 93 18:24:40 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.230129.4543@news.columbia.edu> <8292@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <C0xvJy.v6@demon.co.uk>
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- In article <C0xvJy.v6@demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
- >In article <8292@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM writes:
- >:I thought Britishers used presently in the ironic sense, as in "I'll be with
- >:you presently" means "I'll be with you eventually, but not in your present
- >:lifetime."
- >
- >You're doing it *again*! You ascribe to us far too much dry humour than
- >is necessary to explain the differences. The words have simply diverged.
-
- Sorry. Being American, I can't help but exaggerate.
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- My excuse was that I had just come from reading alt.fan.dave_barry, and so
- it was natural to carry any concept to excess.
-
- Mea culpa, mea culpa. Oh, woe is me!
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