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28 January
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>“Nice store you’ve got there. It would be a real shame if something happened to it.”
We understand that as a veiled threat, rather than a musing of hypothetical possibilities.
Do all native English speakers interpret it that way?
>“Nice store you’ve got there. It would be a real shame if something happened to it.”
We understand that as a veiled threat, rather than a musing of hypothetical possibilities.
Do all native English speakers interpret it that way?
We understand that as a veiled threat, rather than a musing of hypothetical possibilities.
Do all native English speakers interpret it that way?
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Yes. It's most commonly interpreted as a threat, rather than possibilities, because if someone meant that really in a musing manner, they would have said it differently. It's culturally/colloquially in us that the former just has a maniacal nature.
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