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Hi, Anton Shepelev!
I read your message from 02.04.2020 01:09

 ak>> Well, if you have good relations with your office colleges -- why
 ak>> not? The only thing, I think, you should not confuse them with
 ak>> very clever or tricky words. I believe the trauma the Anton's
 ak>> college had got was connected exactly with such a confusion. He
 ak>> thought so hard on the word "directly" that he struck the door
 ak>> jamb with his forehead.

 AS> Why, "directly" is a word of which the temporal meaning is
 AS> obviously straight-forward (the pun intended). I am certain it was
 AS> used in everyday conversation because Leo Tolstoy makes Nekhlyudov
 AS> employ it in his excellent late novel "Resurrection", of which the
 AS> early translations into English omit some very interesing parts,
 AS> notably Tolstoy's observations on the hypocrisy of sweraring in
 AS> court upon the Bible -- *the* book that forbits any swearing
 AS> whatsoever.

I was joking. :) In any case, it was IMHO.

 AS> The 1960 Soviet adaptation of the book is as good as can be.

 AS> P.S.: Pray pardon the lack of proper Fidonet quoting. I am
 AS>       posing from my new Raspberry Pi, to which I have hot
 AS>       had time to migrate my text-formatting facilities.
 AS>       Alexander, have you a version of your Protestant... no
 AS>       Reformator program in the form a Vim module?

Sorry, I have no deal with Vim.

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
fido.english_tutor 2020 
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