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Old 12-February-2008, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by geonuc View Post
I disagree. The context implies a literal interpretation.
In the case of the OP, yes.

In the other example tdvance gave (and to which noclevername was responding), the "figure of speech" interpretation is more likely.
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