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Re: "offer to" versus "offer for" Soup:Language not only betrays who we are but also who we want to be and how we want others to perceive us
So true....and thereby reveals the puffed-up pompous ones out there...which the use of that phrasing would unwittingly reveal this poster as.
I'd think twice about saying, "I understand well..." even in an Academic Business Meeting. Certainly a bit too much for this forum - as I tried to differentiate for the poster.Last edited by Excalibur; 22-Nov-2009 at 05:33.
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