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20682837 No.20682837 [Reply] [Original]

>Not to mention
>Mentions it

>> No.20682852

>invaluable
>doesn't mean "not valuable", just means the same thing as valuable

>> No.20682869

>>20682852
It actually means that it's so good you can't play a price on it, even a high one.

>> No.20682882
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20682882

>>20682837
>irregardless
>it means the same as regardless

>> No.20682890
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20682890

>>20682837
>"It goes without saying that"
>Says it anyway

>> No.20682889

are you retarded?

>> No.20683207

Allow me to help you miserable lot of baiters, ESL students, and underage faggots

>>20682837
"Not to mention" is meant to be used only for information that is merely supplementary and not essential to the point being made

>>20682852
This guy got it >>20682869

>>20682882
Not a word

>>20682890
For something to "go without saying," it must be evident to the matter at hand. You can bring up that matter at hand and not bring up that "thing," and it would still be obvious to everyone with some knowledge of the matter that that "thing" is a part of it

>> No.20683401

>>20683207
shut the fuck up you goddam nerd

>> No.20684257

>Awesome
>is somehow better than awful

>> No.20684276

>>20683207
either bait or autistic

>> No.20684286

>Not a word
beg to differ faggot

>> No.20685092

>>20683207
>Not a word
Don't you just love it when an esl faggot engages in prescriptivism?

>> No.20685138

>>20683207
everyone else in this thread apart from you and that 'invaluable' explainer guy are low-tier provocateurs

>> No.20685162

>>20682837
>There are several reasons for this...
>only lists 3...??

>> No.20685180

>>20685162
There are several reasons for this not to mention the one that goes without saying.

>> No.20685181
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20685181

>Postscript
>An integral part to understanding text at hand

>> No.20685291

>>20682890
The proper terminology:
>It should go without saying...
Then you say it anyway just to fully enumerate your point.

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20685296

"I shall go into no further discussion given that I have discussed it in detail so much previously"
>has literally never done anything similar

>> No.20685316

>>20685138
>and that 'invaluable' explainer guy
And even that 'invaluable' explainer guy is hardly invaluable.

>> No.20685557

>let alone
>talks about a group of people

>> No.20685660

>>20685296
anon, we've talked about this...

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20685810

>"Just a couple of things"
>Lists more than 2

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20685854

>be that as it may
>it's july

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20686345

— "Before we begin, I shall briefly recount the circumstances which led me to write this work."

— PROCEEDS TO GRAB THE WORD "BRIEFLY", PULL DOWN ITS TROUSERS, BEND IT OVER THE TABLE AND THRUST HIS RAMPANT MEMBER REPEATEDLY BETWEEN ITS QUIVERING BUTTOCKS.

>> No.20686808

>>20682837
Chess was bad and i'm tired of pretending its not