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To: Sam who wrote (238330)	7/30/2007 11:36:22 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 281500

If he is a non-native speaker he may have trouble with satire. Idioms, irony, humor and satire are very hard for non-native speakers. In fact some non-native speakers of English never completely master these tasks- just as English native speakers tend to be deviled by the same issues when they speak other languages. Heck, plenty of native English speakers get caught off guard by the Onion, and other such sites- so I don't think you can really take an inability to spot such a piece as indicative of a general personality flaw. IMO, of course.

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