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Re: Synchronization of the constructor

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"Robert Klemme"  wrote in message news:9an1a5F3rrU1@mid.individual.net...

> Btw, it's "question" and not "doubt".  Side note: I see this quite often. 
> Does anybody have an idea why non native speakers often use "doubt" 
> instead of "question"?  I'm not a native speaker myself but I can't 
> remember having mixed up the two.  So I guess it has to do with the way 
> English is taught or the mother tongue.

It's not confusion.  In some cultures, especially those from the 
subcontinent, "doubt" actually means something slightly different from 
Western cultures.  In those cultures it is used when something is not 
completely understood and embodies the question that results from that 
incomplete understanding.

And loving it,

-Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct)
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  Re: Synchronization of the constructor Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-08-13 12:17 +0200
    Re: Synchronization of the constructor "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 21:36 +1000
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  Re: Synchronization of the constructor Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-13 09:36 -0400
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        Re: Synchronization of the constructor Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-13 10:04 -0700
          Re: Synchronization of the constructor Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 21:29 -0700
            Re: Synchronization of the constructor kedar mhaswade <kedar.mhaswade@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 23:16 -0700
            Re: Synchronization of the constructor "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-08-15 14:24 +1000
              Re: Synchronization of the constructor Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 23:03 -0700
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