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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I would have thought the multiple followup posts where I claim "that's not what I said" would have been a sufficient start toward clarification, but then that's just me.
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This may well be worth considerably less than the proverbial hill of beans, but using Google Translate to render your phrase into German, Italian, French and Hindi all seemed (as far as I could tell from my varying comfort levels with those languages) to render it in the way you did not intend it to be parsed.
Again, incoherent? no. Immediately allowing of only one possible interpretation? Also, no.
The title of one of my alll-time favorite Hindi filmi songs is all about this problem "
jaane kyaa tune kahi, jaane kyaa maine suni" "who knows what you said, who knows what I heard". For putting me in mind to listen to it again, I thank you.