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Old 10-09-2008, 02:46 PM   #18
tompe
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Please don't take things so literally, Tommy; the English language doesn't work like that. If someone says to you "I'll be there in a minute", it doesn't mean "60 seconds precisely", but "a fairly short, but indefinite, time".

For me, the time taken to find a book in the Gen3's library is "short". You may not perceive it to be; that's fine. Nobody is trying to "mislead" anyone.
Yes, but your statements did not include the information that you consider 50 seconds to be a time that is not worth mentioning and very short. Most people think it is a very long time to spend to switch between books. So I still maintain that you unintentionally is fooling people with statements like look up of words and switching between books only take a few seconds.
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