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Dave Frightens Me writes:

> I don't think alcohol is good for chronic shyness ...

In many cases, alcohol + chronic shyness => alcoholism.

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The Reid writes:

> my point is that 50% of people who get a life threatening cancer
> will not be saved by being rich, they will not be saved by
> medicine.

Except that this is completely untrue.

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Carole Allen writes:

> Pancreatic cancer for one. By the time symptoms surface and diagnosis
> is made, it is usually too far advanced to arrest regardless of how
> much money you have. You can be gone in 1-3 months in many cases. I
> have personally known several people who died of it; they were
> economically comfortable and certainly could afford the best medical
> care, but it is a relentlessly nasty form of cancer.

It's also an exception to the rule in this respect.

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Martin writes:

> Not many men get pregnant.

Women aren't usually pregnant, either.

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Carole Allen writes:

> How can you determine from what someone has written if that person
> (someone otherwise unknown to you) is a non-native speaker or writer
> of English?

Easily, if his writing is poor. Not at all, if his writing is
perfect.

> Stanislas' written English is of better quality than
> some of the stuff I receive from highly educated Americans born and
> bred in the States.

The errors, however, are different and characteristic for his native
language.

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