Re: "Artificial Sweeteners: They're Enough to Give Some People a H...

Peppermint Patootie <Peppermint_Patootie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <73elujFpn49rU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chris Malcolm <cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I didn't know newsgroup could think. I
thought the people in the groups did the thinking.

My apologies. I assumed you were a native speaker of English.

In English we have a number of common figures of speech like that. For
example we can say things like "the US believed Iraq had weapons of
mass destruction" even though strictly speaking only people can
believe and some US citizens didn't believe it. Your native language
is rather unusual in not having such figures of speech. I would have
guessed they were a universal feature of all human natural languages.

Chris, I know you're having a lot of fun and are very thoroughly
skewering this troll, but I suspect many would appreciate your not
feeding it any more.

I guess that means that you too have decided to refrain from poking
it? :-)

--
Chris Malcolm



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