Petruchio
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Knight's reply about the original post is technically correct. As a writer, I tend to read 'between the lines' and realized that Eir had intended more than she had explicitly stated, so it wasn't a matter of veracity. In my early response, I even mentioned that Eir seems to have implied a second (subtextual) question that hadn't yet been addressed. Remember that as facile in English as Eir is, it's not her first language. (And knowing Europeans, possibly not even her 2nd or 3rd, although that's merely speculative.) That said, Knight well summed up the applicable 'rules'.
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