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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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00The Koreans then launched into a long, philosophical discussion on the justification of both costs and criticized the foreigners' "show of bad faith" by the Americans' "questioning" the need for the two financial obligations. In other words, they had a failure to communicate given the differences ...02br
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00Using the content in quotation marks 'show of bad faith' as an object of possession done often?02br
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01. What do you mean by 01i 00done often02i 00? An object of possession is in general a 01i 00permanent02i 00 object of possesion.

— Marius Hancu

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  • What do you mean by 01i 00done often02i 00?
  • An object of possession is in general a 01i 00permanent02i 00 object of possesion.
  • Anyway, here it looks permanent to me.
  • I do not see any difference being introduced by the quotation marks, except to underline/quote the 01b 00exact terms02b 00 utilized in the discussion.
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01. What do you mean by 01i00done often02i00? An object of possession is in general a 01i00permanent02i00 object of possesion. Anyway, here it looks permanent to me. I do not see any difference being introduced by the quotation marks, except to underline/quote the 01b00exact terms02b00 utilized in the discussion. 02br
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