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...what's the difference?
the best smiles are the ones you lead to 
Zebberdy and Jack Daniels
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What is the meaning of Pie?
The only reason i'm scared of little kid's is because I know in ten year's time they'll be mugging me.....
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Legal and illegal are a point of view. All that matters is morality.
If there's a shadow in your life, then there is also sunshine. Perception is everything.
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If you're actually serious...
This refers to something close by, that refers to something farther away. The exact line of demarcation changes with your frame of reference of course.
next?
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
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Yays!
Another of these threads. I used to like these. They were a fantastic excuse not to do any work, and to increase my post count a whole lot. Now I totally get why people find this annoying. Hohum.
I'd agree with Kyrian, but I'm sure NYC will be along soon to proove her wrong, so I'm gonna keep my mouth shut
*covert hipthrust*
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
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If you're actually serious...
well tom? are you serious?
Legal and illegal are a point of view. All that matters is morality.
If there's a shadow in your life, then there is also sunshine. Perception is everything.
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Yays!
Another of these threads. I used to like these. They were a fantastic excuse not to do any work, and to increase my post count a whole lot. Now I totally get why people find this annoying. Hohum.
I'd agree with Kyrian, but I'm sure NYC will be along soon to proove her wrong, so I'm gonna keep my mouth shut
*covert hipthrust*
See? I keep telling people I'm predictable... But do they listen?
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
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ARRGH - seriousness in chat
*drops on the floor**back to business* okay but then this can't be that or at the most that can only be like this ... as this and that are not the same!... ? and as it depends on the framing, then this can be that for you when to me it's still this... ......... ...................?
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Also This and That can be used in differnt tenses, this being present tense, that being past tense... I think!
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'Time goes by so slowly for those who wait...' - Whatever Happend To Baby Madonna?
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ach boy - now I'm not just confused with this or that, he has to bring up tension in to this one...
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
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Location: On the edge of sunrise and sunset
it's all perception and probability
Legal and illegal are a point of view. All that matters is morality.
If there's a shadow in your life, then there is also sunshine. Perception is everything.
Pooh-Bah
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This (Plural these)
1. Used to refer to the person or thing present, nearby, or just mentioned: This is my cat. These are my tools.
2. Used to refer to what is about to be said: Now don't laugh when you hear this.
3. Used to refer to the present event, action, or time: said he'd be back before this.
2. Used to indicate the nearer or the more immediate one: This is mine and that is yours.
THat (plural those)
1. Used to refer to the one designated, implied, mentioned, or understood: What kind of soup is that?
2. Used to refer to the one, thing, or type specified as follows: The relics found were those of an earlier time.
3. Used to refer to the event, action, or time just mentioned: After that, he became a recluse.
2. Used to indicate the farther or less immediate one: That is for sale; this is not.
3. Used to emphasize the idea of a previously expressed word or phrase: He was fed up, and that to a great degree.
4. The one, kind, or thing; something: She followed the calling of that which she loved.
5. those Used to indicate an unspecified number of people: those who refused to join.
6. Used as a relative pronoun to introduce a clause, especially a restrictive clause: the car that has the flat tire.
7.a. In, on, by, or with which: each summer that the concerts are performed.
b. According to what; insofar as: He never knew her, that I know of.
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gotta breath this one... 
Thanks So is it
"This" or "that kind of money"?
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the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Super Gidg!!!!
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So is it
"This" or "that kind of money"?
I don't know ... what country are you in?
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
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Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
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1 + 1 = 3
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Tom, Are you, as a native speaker of English (i Assume after reading your posts) really finding the difference between the two words SO hard to grasp?
Hmm... Can anyone tell me what this fine Gent is doing?
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Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
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Location: On the edge of sunrise and sunset
contemplating if the bird in his hand IS worth the 2 in the bush.
Legal and illegal are a point of view. All that matters is morality.
If there's a shadow in your life, then there is also sunshine. Perception is everything.
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Location: South Wales
Or as Cantus once said,
A kiss from a pretty girl is worth two from an ugly one.
coming to a country near you
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Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
this is so true
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
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Location: Glasgow
I'm gonna test that theory tomorrow
(probably not the best emoticon) Have faith in what you can do and respect for what you can't
lurker
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Location: Nashville, TN, USA
Written by: FireTom
ARRGH - seriousness in chat
*back to business* okay but then this can't be that or at the most that can only be like this ... as this and that are not the same!... ? and as it depends on the framing, then this can be that for you when to me it's still this... ......... ...................?
there's two uses of "that" first of all. you can use the one that refers to parts of sentences in the sentences you use the one that refers to objects -- "this chair, that he had gotten at this auction house i was just telling you about..."
in informal usage, you're also going to see crap like the above, plus --"..., well it shouldn't have been at that auction house by any means." -- where it switches a "this" to a "that" essentially internally, by stepping from inside the story (where the auction house was "this" auction house being discussed) to the real world (to end the story?) and shifting it to "that" auction house (that was discussed in the story). it would be weird to keep using this and that interchangably, but you might be able to think of a way to pull it off. languages are mushy on the insides with stuff like this, i guess. (i could have said "that" there and it would have made 0 difference).
GOOD. LUCK. WITH. YOUR. ENG. LISH. !
-- dut
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no, sorry, I'm a kraut (which actually means a certain kind of plant - a) a herb or b) some small grassy plant that is growing and reproducing without any (obvious) use to mankind...)so to get back to this and that money: if it's "this@ kind of money, it's closer to me and has some kind of a relevance? ("I earned all this money") "that" kind of money is further away? ("I spent all that money")....
Thanks .:star:. and dut for the input...
although I still am not confident - the daily use of words often depends very much on region, status and condition...@star: hope that/this friend of yours is better
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Tantamount to fatuity
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Written by: UraniumChipOxidationFacilityDid he? He's witty sometimes that fraggle....
Or as Cantus once said,
A kiss from a pretty girl is worth two from an ugly one.
Meh
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