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Old 12-26-2024, 04:35 PM   #3316
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin View Post
Questions of that structure make me wish English had a contradictory/negatory affirmative like the French "si" - so very useful!
That would be good, but does any other language have the equivalant of "Yeah, right."?

What English really needs is the ability unamibguously state something like "Then he hit him." following a sentence mentioning two people. I know Latin can, and assume other languages can as well.

My rant of the day is that I frequently encounter such ambiguity absent any nearby context to resolve it.
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