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23-Mar-2003, 21:00
| | |  a friendly fire incident
Early dispatches included reports of American POWs being taken by Iraq, a friendly fire incident, and a U.S. soldier lobbing a grenade into the tent of one of his commanders.
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23-Mar-2003, 22:48
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Friendly fire means that they were accidentally killed or hurt by soldiers on their own side. |
24-Mar-2003, 03:54
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Originally Posted by tdol Friendly fire means that they were accidentally killed or hurt by soldiers on their own side. | Yes. I suspect that the expression was intended ironically from the beginning.
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24-Mar-2003, 06:47
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Originally Posted by tianshan Early dispatches included reports of American POWs being taken by Iraq, a friendly fire incident, and a U.S. soldier lobbing a grenade into the tent of one of his commanders.
What does it mean? Thanks! | excuse me , what does "POW" stand for, Tianshan? |
24-Mar-2003, 11:03
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POW means Prisoner Of War |
24-Mar-2003, 11:27
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Originally Posted by vvaann excuse me , what does "POW" stand for, Tianshan? | Excuse me , what does "POW" stand for?  Regards,
RonBee
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26-Mar-2003, 11:12
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Originally Posted by vvaann excuse me , what does "POW" stand for, Tianshan? | Excuse me , what does "POW" stand for? | RonBee, thanks. Let's assume that i wanted to ask Tianshan only, what should my sentence be? I mean a polite expression. |
26-Mar-2003, 15:55
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Originally Posted by vvaann excuse me , what does "POW" stand for, Tianshan? | Excuse me , what does "POW" stand for? | RonBee, thanks. Let's assume that i wanted to ask Tianshan only, what should my sentence be? I mean a polite expression. | So sorry. I didn't know you were directing that to Tianshan. <embarrassed> (All that sentence really needed was capitalization.) However, you can't really direct a question to one person only unless you send that person a private message. As you have seen, anybody can answer a question if he wants to. Also, if I post something in a thread the computer assumes that I want to know about any other postings in that thread.
Definitely, that question was asked politely. Regards,
RonBee
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Dear RonBee,
I'm still a bit confused. I cannot think of a problem directing a question to a specific person regardless of whether others know the answer!
BTW, that's only the matter of making a sentence. |
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Originally Posted by vvaann Dear RonBee,
I'm still a bit confused. I cannot think of a problem directing a question to a specific person regardless of whether others know the answer!
| Sorry. I didn't mean to say there is a problem exactly.
On most forums, if you post something to somebody only that person gets an email notification. On this forum, if you post something in a thread everybody who has posted in that thread gets an email notification. There isn't really any such thing as posting a question "to" somebody.
There is no problem. Regards,
RonBee
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