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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Made to face the consequences of your actions...

Robin: My father loved one woman only - my mother.
Guy: That's just (exactly or just just?) what you were told.
The truth was kept from you by your precious father.
Robin: What are you talking about?
Guy: He shielded you from reality like he always did.
You were never made to face
the consequences of your actions.
He was born to be careless? Or
he imlies he was always a mummy's boy?
  

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Madhulk Guy: That's just ( exactly or just just? ) what you were told. Merely, only, simply.

  • Madhulk Guy: That's just ( exactly or just just?
  • ) what you were told.
  • Merely, only, simply.
  • Here it signifies that he was not told the full facts.
  • (In other situations, "just" can mean "exactly".
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Madhulk
Guy: That's just (exactly or just just?) what you were told.


Merely, only, simply. Here it signifies that he was not told the full facts.

(In other situations, "just" can mean "exactly". You can only really tell from the context, or, in spoken English, the intonation.)
Madhulk
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Thanks, Mr Wordy! Now I see the last one was really easy but
somehow I saw made as born. You know like something made for...
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