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    From HenHanna@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 1 15:48:53 2024
    [This is a guest post from Brett Powley]

    I ran into something recently that I thought might be log-worthy. My
    wife was watching Van Helsing, the TV series, and I heard one of the
    characters say this:

    1. I didn’t save you because you’re not important.

    Now, what he meant was:

    2. I wouldn’t have saved you if you weren’t important.


    -------------------- 1 sounds weird,

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  • From Tilde@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Sun Sep 1 22:07:59 2024
    HenHanna wrote:
    [This is a guest post from Brett Powley]

    I ran into something recently that I thought might be log-worthy. My
    wife was watching Van Helsing, the TV series, and I heard one of the characters say this:

                     1.  I didn’t save you because you’re not important.

    Now, what he meant was:

                     2.  I wouldn’t have saved you if you weren’t important.


    --------------------   1 sounds weird,

    Full discussion here


    https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65606

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