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Posted: 17 September 2008 04:08 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Above all, they are here to SPORT their English. !

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Posted: 19 September 2008 09:55 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Quite right as you so arduously maintain “immediately at once” constitutes this obvious flagrant redundancy in written speech; my own formal experience, however, with somewhat telescopic Latin studies has very wisely taught me, if anything here merits passing interest, how advanced composition in modern English likewise ought to address the equally ponderous question of eloquent style, much as it already does that of perfect grammar: Thus seminal diagram when once. . . then should even feel less barren or crampy than plainly rustic when. . . then and be well put to such deliberate but excellent use!

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1.  הכל הבל׃ hakkol hével Qohelet 1:2 “all (is) vanity” KJV loc. cit.
2.  [οἱ] ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι [Textus Receptus] Mark 10:31 novissimi primi Vulg. “last (shall be) first” ibid.
3.  ’Tis the path you take in life that’s more important! Sufi wisdom

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Posted: 19 September 2008 01:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Reza, meet your mentor ! 

My response on Beyonce appears to have been GOGged.

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Posted: 19 September 2008 02:09 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Thanks a world @ bandito,

But, frankly speaking, that was too pompous for me to comprehend.
Would you care to paraphrase your reply?

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Posted: 19 September 2008 03:16 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Just not possible to do, at least not in any mortal way, i.e. not without sounding too much like a recondite stodgy grammar but I shall gladly make it even worse!

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1.  הכל הבל׃ hakkol hével Qohelet 1:2 “all (is) vanity” KJV loc. cit.
2.  [οἱ] ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι [Textus Receptus] Mark 10:31 novissimi primi Vulg. “last (shall be) first” ibid.
3.  ’Tis the path you take in life that’s more important! Sufi wisdom

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Posted: 22 September 2008 09:45 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Oops, the question was removed to another forum to get a real answer and help.
These guys here are not to answer and help you but bewilder you and …
Above all, they are here to SPORT their English. !

What, giving up already?  If we had your backtreading style in our distinguished Armed Services, my faint-of-heart friend, this magnificent county would indeed be under foreign occupation, or perchance totally at the unbegrudging mercy of those accursed international terrorists who so violently storm our mighty gates.  One very important lesson in academic education, especially that above preschool level, surely has to be admitting whatever comes your merry way, whether you happen to agree with it or not, for this rather odd sort of intellectual maturity constitutes the truest essence of rational learning--or else in rock maestro Pete Townshend’s unforgettable lyrics of wild & crazy 1971, “I don’t need [you] to be forgiven!”

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1.  הכל הבל׃ hakkol hével Qohelet 1:2 “all (is) vanity” KJV loc. cit.
2.  [οἱ] ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι [Textus Receptus] Mark 10:31 novissimi primi Vulg. “last (shall be) first” ibid.
3.  ’Tis the path you take in life that’s more important! Sufi wisdom

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