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Post by Per on Mar 20, 2010 11:52:13 GMT
Agree is quite unusual to have only the one yes, yesyes? Should add the extra yes for to display the sincerity, yesyesyes? You are going to buy exquisite carpet from me now, yesyesyesyes?
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Post by La Goon on Mar 20, 2010 16:14:45 GMT
Uh what?
I'm not sure what to make of your post, but I assume it's meant as a joke (sorry if it isn't).
My question was genuine. English is a foreign language to me, so details like that sometimes confuse me. Is it common for "natural" English speakers to end a sentence that way; with "yes?"
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 20, 2010 16:51:52 GMT
Uh what? I'm not sure what to make of your post, but I assume it's meant as a joke (sorry if it isn't). My question was genuine. English is a foreign language to me, so details like that sometimes confuse me. Is it common for "natural" English speakers to end a sentence that way; with "yes?" I would say it is a more formal way of asking the question, rather than an archaic way. And Reynardine is in Noble Wolf mode, so it makes sense.
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Post by bonzairob on Mar 22, 2010 1:09:20 GMT
I don't think he'd take back his body if it's in the wood. Seems like it would be playing into Ysengrin's hands to get that close. And then, of course, there's Coyote's motives being utterly inscrutable. Who knows why he made Reynard the offer?
And, isn't Reynard French? Perhaps he still has a bit of an accent.
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Post by evilanagram on Mar 22, 2010 18:55:05 GMT
I really don't see the big deal about the Court being founded by murderers. Of course, I'm American, and just about every town in the US was founded on some heinous act of murder.
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Post by the bandit on Mar 22, 2010 19:39:40 GMT
I really don't see the big deal about the Court being founded by murderers. Of course, I'm American an Earthling, and just about every town in the US on Earth was founded on some heinous act of murder. Fixed. If I'm going to accept the premise (that Americans are overly violent), I'm going to help you put it in perspective.
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Post by evilanagram on Mar 22, 2010 20:54:45 GMT
I really don't see the big deal about the Court being founded by murderers. Of course, I'm American an Earthling, and just about every town in the US on Earth was founded on some heinous act of murder. Fixed. If I'm going to accept the premise (that Americans are overly violent), I'm going to help you put it in perspective. The premise wasn't that Americans are overly violent so much as the settlement of North America by white people tended to involve the violent removal of the people already living in the areas being settled. So, we'd kill a chief or wipe out a tribe before naming the town after them. This particular method of settlement isn't exactly unique to us, but it's far more prevalent than in other countries.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 22, 2010 22:05:01 GMT
I really don't see the big deal about the Court being founded by murderers. Of course, I'm American, and just about every town in the US was founded on some heinous act of murder. The big deal is that Kat is rather less cynical than you are, and has lived a rather sheltered life. She wants to believe the best about other people, and about the Court where she's lived her whole life.
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Post by todd on Mar 22, 2010 22:16:58 GMT
Also, the person whom the Founders murdered was one of their own, not someone from the Woods; it would be the equivalent of the founders of one of those American settlements murdering one of their fellow colonists.
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Post by linnabean on Mar 22, 2010 23:21:48 GMT
And that would just be a no-no. Unless of course it was the 1600s and you thought they were a witch.
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Post by evilanagram on Mar 29, 2010 22:46:04 GMT
The big deal is that Kat is rather less cynical than you are, and has lived a rather sheltered life. She wants to believe the best about other people, and about the Court where she's lived her whole life. That's not cynical; it's observant. Also, the person whom the Founders murdered was one of their own, not someone from the Woods; it would be the equivalent of the founders of one of those American settlements murdering one of their fellow colonists. Jamestown, anybody?
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 1, 2010 2:31:22 GMT
The big deal is that Kat is rather less cynical than you are, and has lived a rather sheltered life. She wants to believe the best about other people, and about the Court where she's lived her whole life. That's not cynical; it's observant. This: is observant. Using that observation to conclude that is cynical.
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Post by evilanagram on Apr 2, 2010 8:25:19 GMT
That's not cynical; it's observant. This: is observant. Using that observation to conclude that is cynical. Maybe a little. I guess I see your point; I just thought the fact that Jeanne was betrayed by someone who claimed to love her would be more jarring than the fact that it was the founders who did the actual killing. I suppose that the revelation darkens her view of the Court quite a bit now that she knows that any apparent safety provided by the Court comes at a horrifying price, and Jeanne still suffers.
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