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   Anton Shepelev to alexander koryagin   
   Misinterprestation   
   02 Apr 20 01:09:48   
   
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   PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20200226   
   EID: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf)   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   TZUTC: 0300   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2019-12-05   
   Alexander Koraygin:   
      
   > Well, if you have good relations with your office colleges -- why   
   > not? The only thing, I think, you should not confuse them with   
   > very clever or tricky words. I believe the trauma the Anton's   
   > college had got was connected exactly with such a confusion. He   
   > thought so hard on the word "directly" that he struck the door   
   > jamb with his forehead. ;-)   
      
   Why, "directly" is a word of which the temporal meaning is obviously   
   straight-forward (the pun intended). I am certain it was used in   
   everyday conversation because Leo Tolstoy makes Nekhlyudov employ   
   it in his excellent late novel "Resurrection", of which the early   
   translations into English omit some very interesing parts, notably   
   Tolstoy's observations on the hypocrisy of sweraring in court upon   
   the Bible -- *the* book that forbits any swearing whatsoever.   
      
   The 1960 Soviet adaptation of the book is as good as can be.   
      
   P.S.: Pray pardon the lack of proper Fidonet quoting. I am posing   
         from my new Raspberry Pi, to which I have hot had time to   
         migrate my text-formatting facilities. Alexander, have you a   
         version of your Protestant... no Reformator program in the   
         form a Vim module?   
      
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