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Latest post Tue, Nov 3 2009 1:37 PM by Avangi. 1 replies.
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Anonymous  +  960658 Tue, 03 Nov 09 12:40 PM
Hey everybody ! I need your help because I've a work to do in english and I want to know what are the  different meanings of "Actually you bought that !" because I heard it in 90210 show and I wanted to know if I can say that like "hey you thought that what i was saying was true ?! " Sorry for my english ,I'm french so I do the best I can to speak well :-) Thanks to answer me quickly please
Avangi  +  960711 Tue, 03 Nov 09 01:37 PM
To buy something means to go to the store and purchase it.


But there's also an idiom, "to buy something," which means to accept, or believe something which a person tells you.  (This is the meaning of your example:  "Hey! Did you actually think that what I said was true?"

"Did you actually buy what I said?")


Your version would be okay with a capital and a comma: "Hey, you . . . "


I thought you were going to be careful with punctuation and capitalization.

French


quickly ,  please  .

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Anonymous, 18 days ago
Thanks for your answer and I'm sorry for the lack of punctuation and capitalization...
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