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J-B
 
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Reply Wed 22 Dec, 2004 05:19 am
panzade wrote:
^JB^ wrote:
I don't not laugh too rudely for the 4-week-long massacre haven't "ended"


You are being inscrutable....


Sure! :wink: Cool
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J-B
 
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Reply Wed 22 Dec, 2004 05:22 am
ok here is another thread:
Quote:
It does seems that humanity has crossed into a perilous new era, in which a new breed of terrorsits.....
quoted from National Geographic


Why did the author put "breed" here? I mean what did he try to emphasize?
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panzade
 
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Reply Wed 22 Dec, 2004 06:11 am
perhaps to underline a subtle disdain for the life-form.

A group of organisms having common ancestors and certain distinguishable characteristics, especially a group within a species developed by artificial selection and maintained by controlled propagation.
A kind; a sort: a new breed of politician; a new breed of computer.
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J-B
 
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Reply Thu 23 Dec, 2004 04:19 am
panzade wrote:
perhaps to underline a subtle disdain for the life-form.


You mean the authur shows the subtle disdain for terrorists?
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panzade
 
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Reply Thu 23 Dec, 2004 07:45 am
On rereading it...no, there's no disdain...just a new type of terrorist
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Einherjar
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 02:00 am
But there has to be more than one terrorist, or it wouldn't be a breed. Try new model of terrorist. As in car model. (and I do not mean model car)
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panzade
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 02:06 am
Einherjar wrote:
But there has to be more than one, or it wouldn't be a breed.


Actually...I respectfully disagree...breed is singular in this case.
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Einherjar
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 02:12 am
panzade wrote:
Einherjar wrote:
But there has to be more than one, or it wouldn't be a breed.


Actually...I respectfully disagree...breed is singular in this case.

More than one terrorist, sorry.
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panzade
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 02:14 am
No doubt, but the reference is to a single new breed..of terrorist.
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Einherjar
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 02:15 am
Edited, and fixed.
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J-B
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 04:58 am
ok thanks Very Happy

And here
Quote:
"I respect you. I wish you all a merry Christmas," said Rumsfeld, who has been criticized in some quarters for not showing sufficient concern for troops' welfare.
Reuters.com


"in some quarters"? what does that mean?
help Surprised
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J-B
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 05:06 am
Quote:
plead guilty?


admit? or disagree?



Quote:
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed in the northern industrial city of San Pedro Sula on Thursday when gunmen sprayed a public bus with bullets and left a menacing message for crime-busting politicians, police said.


crime-busting?
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Einherjar
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 05:17 am
^JB^ wrote:
Quote:
plead guilty?


admit? or disagree?


Admit.
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J-B
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 05:26 am
Einherjar wrote:
^JB^ wrote:
Quote:
plead guilty?


admit? or disagree?


Admit.


thanks.
But doesn't "plead" mean beg?
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Einherjar
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 05:37 am
^JB^ wrote:
Einherjar wrote:
^JB^ wrote:
Quote:
plead guilty?


admit? or disagree?


Admit.


thanks.
But doesn't "plead" mean beg?

Yeah, sort of. Plead guilty is the opposite of plead innocent. Pleading either way in court amounts to "begging" the court to make that judgement.
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J-B
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 05:42 am
beg the court to make that judgement?
So he wants to end the endless trial?
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Einherjar
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 05:52 am
^JB^ wrote:
beg the court to make that judgement?
So he wants to end the endless trial?


Initially when an accused comes before a court, he pleads either innocent or guilty. If he pleads innocent, he (or rather his counsel) is made to defend his innocence, if he pleads guilty, the court skips straight to sentencing.

"Plead" sort of goes with "your honor" and lots of other language which really seem to be all about sucking up to the judges. It is there to underline that the accused speaks from no authority, his "plea" is really more of a suggestion as opposed to a demand.

Wether one pleads innocent or guilty one does so in responce to the question, "How do you plead", asked at the very beginning of the trial.
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panzade
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 01:47 pm
BUST

To smash or break, especially forcefully: "Mr. Luger worked it with a rake, busting up the big clods, making a flat brown table" (Garrison Keillor).
To render inoperable or unusable: busted the vending machine by putting in foreign coins.

It's great to have a Norske here helping out.
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J-B
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 11:21 pm
So "crime-busting officials" means the officials who are striking crime.
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J-B
 
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Reply Fri 24 Dec, 2004 11:22 pm
^JB^ wrote:
ok thanks Very Happy

And here
Quote:
"I respect you. I wish you all a merry Christmas," said Rumsfeld, who has been criticized in some quarters for not showing sufficient concern for troops' welfare.
Reuters.com


"in some quarters"? what does that mean?
help Surprised



And how about this? Surprised
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