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| From: | Karlin High |
| Subject: | Re: [OT] Grammatic gender |
| Date: | Sat, 18 Nov 2017 12:18:48 -0600 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 |
On 11/18/2017 11:33 AM, David Wright wrote:
You might find yourself being misunderstood in more serious circumstances, if you don't allow for the same words to mean different things, or even the opposite.
Reminds me of my cousin on a business trip to England. He learned that, unlike in America, the terms "phone card" and "calling card" are NOT equivalent and interchangeable.
-- Karlin High Missouri, USA
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