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Kathleen Weber's avatar

OK—I get this. Voting for the guy we want will accomplish your goals.

After all, Hitler said, "Give me the Sudetenland, and that's my last territorial goal in Europe. Promise!"

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Mu Chen's avatar

I'd agree with you more.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

"I'd agree with you more."

This sentence is not an idiom in English, and so is basically incomprehensible.

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J M Hatch's avatar

My guess, one I'd be comfortable making, would be, "I agree with you more (than with Chairman Rabbit)."

I'm also having to guess at what you meant. Since I can understand many sentences that are not idioms in English, I normally would assume the same is true of anyone with a reasonable grasp of the language. However recently I've learned assumptions I once felt well based are not so. If you have difficulty grasping the meaning of a sentence, then why not ask for clarification directly to it's author, perhaps phrased as a polite request.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

There is a very dominant idiom in English that goes: “I couldn't agree with you more.”

If you write a sentence that is almost this dominant idiom, but not quite, most people would assume you just misspoke. Or is it be very puzzled, the way I was.

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J M Hatch's avatar

It's a big world out there. The % of native speakers of English in the total population is only going down, while exposure to non-native speakers will go up with increased pervasiveness of communication technology.

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