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Old February 25th, 2001, 05:23 AM
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Default Re: pardon my ignorance

There are a lot of cross language confusions like that, even between British and American English.

All of us in my German I class in eighth grade were quite amused when the teacher introduced the German preposition(?) "damit". :-)
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