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7 Sep 2024 17:16:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Question about English grammar  
From: Darren New
Date: 30 Jun 2008 20:20:45
Message: <4869785d@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:
> LOL

Yeah. To be fair, I think without the "exactly" it gets ambiguous. :-)

> I just asked Regan, my wife and she looked at me as if I had forgotten
> to put my trousers on. 

Trousers. Right. British English. Different rules, as I said.

> In speech it it called a caesura.

No doubt a pause there emphasizes the part you want to emphasize.

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