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Reegis Posted 10 years ago
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However, the statement is true.

Good morning,

let's imagine a heated debate on the veracity of some statement. Person A says it is false, person B confirms what person A said, and then all of a sudden person C enlightens everyone on this matter explaining what it is true.
Now, person D would like to briefly comment the fact that in spite of the initial words / contrary to them, the statement turned out to be true:

a) However, the statement is true.
b) However! The statement is true.

1) Does this make sense and sound OK in this context?

I don't know if I expressed clearly what I meant... Here http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/however?q=however, the usage three seems to be what I am looking for, but I don't know if I can use it at the beginning of a sentence. It sounds far better in the examples presented there.

2) Can you think of any other (better) compact way of conveying such message?
  

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1) B is no good. And I don't think you need all that prefatory context. Reegis I don't know if I expressed clearly what I meant Probably not; the answer is too simple.

— Mister Micawber

  • 1) B is no good.
  • And I don't think you need all that prefatory context.
  • Reegis I don't know if I expressed clearly what I meant Probably not; the answer is too simple.
  • q=however , the usage three seems to be what I am looking for, but I don't know if I can use it at the beginning of a sentence.
  • It is used at the beginning of one of the example sentences there.
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1) B is no good. And I don't think you need all that prefatory context.
ReegisI don't know if I expressed clearly what I meant
Probably not; the answer is too simple.
Reegis Here http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.co
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Mister MicawberProbably not; the answer is too simple.
Hmm, maybe it is simple:)

I will try to explain it further: In my native language there is a single word you can say at the very beginning of your statement (and you can put an exclamation mark after this single word) that it seems it has no direct equivalent in English. It means that surprisingly
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Reegisthere is a single word you can say at the very beginning of your statement (and you can put an exclamation mark after this single word)
Not in English.
Reegis it seems it has no direct equivalent in English.
That is a common occurrence between languages.
ReegisI have just found in my dictionary
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Mister MicawberThat is a common occurrence between languages.
Yes, I am aware of this. I just wanted to indicate that this might be the case in our conversation.
Mister MicawberGood for you. It is an extremely common word in that position. It means 'But'.
Is it really just a common 'but'? In my dictionary I have the followin
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I'm sorry, but I fail to see the source of your consternation. The two different uses of the word are simple enough to be gleaned from a dictionary entry. There is no more to them than that.
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Well, I guess I hoped that however might be used this way. It is just that hope dies last.
Then I will settle for your proposition It's true after all. It sounds best in such cases to my ear
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