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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary
So good to see you at the beach...
A guy talks about his girlfriend Kimi who read
a text message from another girl on her boyfriend's phone.
She texted me yesterday asking me when I was gonna come pick
up some surfingboard that Kimi won and... I don't know, you know, "Oh, so good
to see you at the beach," (he says it was a plain greeting message?)
all this stuff. Yeah, you know, she might have
written a couple of things that, if you read them out of context, If you dunno what's the case?
they could have been misunderstood.
a text message from another girl on her boyfriend's phone.
She texted me yesterday asking me when I was gonna come pick
up some surfingboard that Kimi won and... I don't know, you know, "Oh, so good
to see you at the beach," (he says it was a plain greeting message?)
all this stuff. Yeah, you know, she might have
written a couple of things that, if you read them out of context, If you dunno what's the case?
they could have been misunderstood.
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Your two underscored phrases are related. "To take something out of context" is a very well-known problem, in which someone tries to guess at the meaning of a portion of something without having access to the rest of it - or deliberately omits certain parts to make it misleading. So he doesn't know if a "personal relationship" is indicated.
- Your two underscored phrases are related.
- "To take something out of context" is a very well-known problem, in which someone tries to guess at the meaning of a portion of something without having access to the rest of it - or deliberately omits certain parts to make it misleading.
- So he doesn't know if a "personal relationship" is indicated.
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Your two underscored phrases are related. "To take something out of context" is a very well-known problem, in which someone tries to guess at the meaning of a portion of something without having access to the rest of it - or deliberately omits certain parts to make it misleading.
So he doesn't know if a "personal relationship" is indicated.
So he doesn't know if a "personal relationship" is indicated.
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How do you mean related? The one with the beach
indicates personal relationship? As in too personal?
indicates personal relationship? As in too personal?
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By putting "is indicated" in the passive voice, I can duck all your technical questions. 
It's like making a medical d
It's like making a medical d
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