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Siavash Moghaddasian Posted 9 years ago
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That would have to be

Hi everyone.
Many thanks to native Englishmen who generously help.

In the TV show "How I Met Your Mother"
Robin is a news reporter, she interviews an old cab driver and asks him what his most exciting memory is.

Robin: in your past 60 years on the job, what's your most exciting memory?

Cab driver: and then in "72, Mickey Mantle rode in my cab for the fourth time, but the most exciting moment,that would have to be this one, right now. Look at me, I'm on TV, I never thought I'd have my story told.

Thanks a million beforehand.
  

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Siavash Moghaddasian the most exciting moment, that would have to be this one, right now. that = the most exciting moment In conversational style we sometimes repeat things, but in an approximate way. A dash might have shown the pause-and-repeat idea more clearly.

— CalifJim

  • Siavash Moghaddasian the most exciting moment, that would have to be this one, right now.
  • that = the most exciting moment In conversational style we sometimes repeat things, but in an approximate way.
  • A dash might have shown the pause-and-repeat idea more clearly.
  • the most exciting moment — that (moment) would have to be this one, ...
  • CJ
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Siavash Moghaddasianthe most exciting moment, that would have to be this one, right now.

that = the most exciting moment

In conversational style we sometimes repeat things, but in an approximate way.

A dash might have shown the pause-and-repeat idea more clearly.

... the most exciting moment — that (moment) would have to be this one, ..

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