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kjol
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 Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:49 am Post subject: with a trespass on credulity that excels your best |
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| Next, let me say to you that, if I understood you, with a trespass on credulity that excels your best, you said that our position had changed since I spoke here the other day because of the pressures of world opinion and the majority of the United Nations. |
(1) Does "credulity" make sense?
(2) ...that excels your best ( )
Which comes in the parentheses, "credulity" or "trespass"? |
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CP
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A very interesting expression. He seems to be saying, you have said unbelievable things before, but this time you have topped yourself.
A trespass to land is what we call entering someone's land without permission. A trespass to chattels (personal property) is using or taking someone's belongings without permission. A trespass is a kind of violation.
Credulity is a tendency to believe someone or something readily.
So a trespass on credulity would be a violation of the tendency to believe the speaker readily. I'm ready to believe you, but you are telling me something that is very hard to believe.
If your current trespass excels your best, it surpasses the best you have done in the past. The implication is that you have strained my credulity many times, and pretty well, but this time you have really outdone yourself.
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kjol
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| Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, Mr CP, let me give you and admiration remark! You're excellent in teaching things!  I owe you a lot! |
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CP
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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Truly, Kjol, I wear your admiration remark as a badge of honor. It repays me tenfold.
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