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Antonija Posted 20 years ago
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not good/of no good

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00Which of the two is better? Thank you02br
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00The woman should tilt her head or lean on her elbow and she should firstly announce that sex in the marriage is 01u00not good/is of no good.02u0-
  

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0 01i00Now, I would like to say a few words about nagging,00 00the most powerful weapon of married women. You may not be able to blackmail your 01font00already fed up02font00 husband anymore by threatening to leave him, but if you repeat the problem ten or twenty times in a low, but persistent voice, you will sail into a grandiose c
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1i01font00already-fed-up02font00 02i02br
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01font01i00not good/is of no good02i00 02font00(Neither one sounds right.) Maybe 00"not so great".02br
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0Thanks Davkett.02br
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01i00visually though02i00 -meaning that you will not speak with your husband, because you will be pretending to be offended but you will be able to visually enjoy the scene (of seeing him, who is usually phlegmatic, upset).02br
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01i00similar to the big naval battle of the old masters in which you will 02i01font01i00find enjoyment,02i00 01u00though only02u00 01i00/ 01u00if only02u00 visually02i02font01i00.02i02br
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0<01i00You should start nagging as later as you can,02i00>02br
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00It should be "as late as you can".0-
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01cite10Antonija12cite11i10Now, I would like to say a few words about nagging,11span10 12span10the most powerful weapon of married women. You may not be able to blackmail your 11span11font10already fed up12font12
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01cite10Kajjo12cite101. already fed-up husband12br
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10I may be wrong, but it seems to me that in this instance a hyphen also belongs between 11i11font10already12font12i10 and 11i11font10fed-up12font10.1
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01cite10Davkett12cite10I may be wrong, but it seems to me that in this instance a hyphen also belongs between 11i11font10already12font12i10 and 11i11font10fed-up12font10.12i12br
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0I've not researched the rule. The special circumstance here that may be complicating things is that the adjective (01i00fed-up02i00) is already hyphenated. Wouldn't we want to hyphenate these?--02br
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01i01font00an02font02i00 01i01font00already-aggravated
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