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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
"nothing" seems extreme, unless one is omniscient. Not a common condition in my experience. The frequency may be greatly reduced, but to insist there is zero chance of it happening, as saying "nothing will" does, smacks of hubris.
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Originally Posted by Loosheesh
Speaking for myself, I don’t mean absolutely ‘nothing’, but it rarely happens and definitely not with the type of things mentioned here.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Oh, things even from your own culture will trip you up, I just meant nothing in the sense of the tripping things mentioned.
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I think most of us posting here know the actual meaning of most of the words we've mentioned. But even so, for words that have different usage in different countries my mind usually pictures the local meaning, however briefly, before switching.