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Teo Posted 20 years ago
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Look! There's the dodo.

01. Look! There's the dodo.02br
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002. Look! The dodo is there.02br
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0 The first calls attention to the discovery or appearance of the dodo, as if you had been waiting for the dodo, or as if the dodo suddenly walked in.02br
00 The second calls attention to the location of the dodo, as if you had been looking for the dodo for quite a long time and were glad finally to have found it.02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10The first calls attention to the discovery or appearance of the dodo, as if you had been waiting for the dodo, or as if the dodo suddenly walked in.12br
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10If there were a dodo suddenly walked in, could we say, "Look! There's 01b00a 02b00d
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0 If you were waiting for 01u00the02u00 dodo, that is, 01u00that02u00 dodo and no other, you'd say "Look! There's the dodo!" (that we've been waiting for - that specific dodo we expected to come in).02br
00 If you were not expecting anything or anybody in particular, but this unexpected creature walked in, you'd say "Look! There's a
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10Since dodos are extinct, one wonders whether either of these makes any sense in the real world12br
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0 Mr. Davkett,02br
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00 I saw on the main page that you had responded to this thread. Before even opening the thread I said to myself, "Aha! A dodo photo. Certainly this is going to be a dodo photo."02br
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00 You do not disappoint, my friend. You do not disappoint!02br
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0CJ, I think, however, it was just a big puppet balloon in the distance.02br
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00(You, too, never disappoint!)0-

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