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But if you want to pin a Spanish speaker down with the equivalent of this useful term in English, you are going to have to be content to ask him if he is being serious, even if he happens to be dying with laughter over what he has said.
To be sure, there's always some sad talk about the infinity of possibilities that are lost when something like this happens, or when some similar tragedy comes along.
So there's no chance you'll think that the film is genuinely misogynist, the writer-director, Neil LaBute, makes the object of their scheme not a trashy bitch but a shy, good, hauntingly lovely woman (Christine, played by Stacy Edwards) who also happens to be deaf.
A similar notion surrounds the word till , which many would suggest is a somehow less formal shortening of until , the shortening of which is properly written 'til . As it happens, the original form was till , with until being formed from unto `up to' + till . The citations in the OED , which are rather thin on the ground for early 13th-century (Middle) English, show the two forms to be of virtually contemporaneous origin.
) and a morning talk show where nothing happens ( Live With Regis & Kathie Lee ). Yet Regis Philbin deserves all his acclaim and more.