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my reflexes return the same greeting
1. Does the RED sentence mean "I automatically answered his greeting in French and said that I was glad to meet him"?
2. Does the GREEN sentence want to say "how pretentious it would have been if I had answered his greeting in German or even English, so I did the right thing that I answered him in his language"?
When we eventually pass by one another he mutters, ‘Bonjour’. I am taken aback, but my reflexes return the same greeting, for which I am glad. (How pompous it would have been to insist on German, or worse, English.) Has he come all the way from Belgium, or even France?
2. Does the GREEN sentence want to say "how pretentious it would have been if I had answered his greeting in German or even English, so I did the right thing that I answered him in his language"?
When we eventually pass by one another he mutters, ‘Bonjour’. I am taken aback, but my reflexes return the same greeting, for which I am glad. (How pompous it would have been to insist on German, or worse, English.) Has he come all the way from Belgium, or even France?
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red apple 1. Does the RED sentence mean "I automatically answered his greeting in French and said that I was glad to meet him"? No.
- red apple 1.
- Does the RED sentence mean "I automatically answered his greeting in French and said that I was glad to meet him"?
- No.
- It means that he also said 'Bonjour'.
- red apple 2.
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red apple1. Does the RED sentence mean "I automatically answered his greeting in French and said that I was glad to meet him"?No. It means that he also said 'Bonjour'.
red apple2. Does the GREEN sentence want to say "how pretentious it would have been if I had answered his greeting in German or even English, so I did the right thing t
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