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Taka  #274574  Sat, 30 Sep 06 03:48 PM
 Schetin wrote:

Taka,

I think you can get any of the effects, or even both, if you want to. The point is that you get the one you want.



If the usage is ambiguous, that's absolutely fine.

It's just, it seemed to me that Clive said it was wrong to use it for the religion sentence in the expectation way. So I'm asking and checking why it's wrong.
  
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Schetin  #274633  Sat, 30 Sep 06 07:42 PM

 Taka wrote:
It's just, it seemed to me that Clive said it was wrong to use it for the religion sentence in the expectation way. So I'm asking and checking why it's wrong.

Clive didn't say it was wrong. He wanted you to understand that the 'expectation' meaning just doesn't come to mind first and he feels at a loss, when he reads the sentence.

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Taka  #274924  Sun, 01 Oct 06 04:06 PM
 Schetin wrote:

Clive didn't say it was wrong. He wanted you to understand that the 'expectation' meaning just doesn't come to mind first and he feels at a loss, when he reads the sentence.

Hmm...then maybe I am just a weak reader...

Anyway, thank you, everybody!

And Clive, don't get me wrong. I didn't mean to be hard on you.

I just didn't know if, as Schetin says, you were saying it was ambiguous or you were telling me that it was wrong. I was just confused.

See you!
  
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