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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
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at 30 paces

0It wasn't exactly pistols 01b00at 30 paces02b00, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking02br
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00What's the meaning of 30 paces?02br
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0 It seems like a scene from a duel, if you replace "paces" with "steps".02br
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01b00pace00 02b00(STEP)02br
00noun00 00[ C ]02br
00a single step, or the distance you move when you take a single step:02br
00 01i00 Take two paces forwards/backwards.02i02br
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0The idea of settling things "like gentlemen" is that they would duel. (Why is was gentlemanly to shoot others, I'm not clear on.) The would stand back-to-back, and walk 30 paces, or steps, then turn and fire. This article is comparing these two idiots in the parking lot to two people who had decided on the "proper" way to settle an arguement.0-
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0I assume the number of paces or steps was standard- 30. If I chose anohther number, it may raise an eyebrow, right?02br
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00Thanks Tanit and GG.0-
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0Only among the cognoscenti:050010id1
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