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To: Rambi who wrote (980)	3/31/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) of 4711

"Remedial rectification?" How about "Reconstructive remedial rectification" or "Relentlessly revisionist reconstructive remedial rectification redolent of red roses"? I don't think there's much doubt about whether this dude is putting anyone on or not. Also, delighted to discover this thread (stocks are so dull, especially when they're not going up!), I have a belated comment, or rather question, about the earlier French quote "Quand tout le monde a tort, tout le monde a raison." Jack Clarke's original translation, "When everybody is wrong, everybody is right," was literally and idiomatically precise, although I would have made it a click more idiomatic and less literal and said "If everybody's wrong, then everybody's right." There are no accents on any of the 'a's. To me it just means that right and wrong are two interdependent sides of the same coin: one has no meaning in the absence of the other. I see no trace of anything having to do with "faults" or "making sense". So my question to Mr. Wisam Raad: were you making a joke with your alternate take on the quote?

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