Sorry for what, exactly? --- LOL, you looked up the answer, Hervé!

The first apology is, as everybody will recognise, a conventional expression of sympathy and condolence.

The second is finely tuned - I welcome your own analysis of what exactly is being apologised for.

Alternatively, if you want to turn the exercise on its head, how would you craft a sentence in which you use the word 'sorry' but absolve yourself of agency.

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu