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7 Post author: Bongo 26 May 2011 08:40PM

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Comment author: MixedNuts 27 May 2011 02:10:46PM 4 points [-]

Friendly neighborhood inferential distance surveyor: it sounded like your point was about forgetfulness, not taking the loan in the first place. In general, when you say "A, then B, even though C", it sounds like A is context-setting and B is what C should have prevented (as opposed to "C should have prevented A and B"). Except when it doesn't.