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|    Michael Dukelsky to Paul Quinn    |
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|    14 Dec 13 13:08:54    |
      Hello Paul,              Friday December 13 2013, Paul Quinn wrote to Michael Dukelsky:               MD>> I've encountered such a phrase: "Betchya woulda forgot that one".               PQ> Spoken by an Englishman or Australian?              I don't know. I've seen it in the documentation for a unix command 'strace'.       :-)               MD>> Do I understand it correctly that it means "I bet you would        MD>> forget that one"?               PQ> Very close, Michael. It's more likey "I bet you would have forgotten        PQ> that one". (The "a" attached to the word "would" is a clue, as it        PQ> gives the short sound of the word "have", and, therefore the tense.)              Thank you, Paul.              Michael              ... dukelsky (at) aha (dot) ru       --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20100314        * Origin: Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042)    |
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