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      integral part of the grammar.

      The language of opinions, requests & apologies --- Thanks for this example, Christian. The English 'in my humble opinion' and 'I beg to differ' play on the same theme of diminishing one's imposition. Varisants of the verb 'to beg' or 'to humbly ask' exist in many languages as requests, e.g Slav language variants of 'mollie vas' The Chinese for 'sorry' is due-bu-qi which means 'not able to face [you]'

      Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu

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