A negative experience can turn you off (in general), or it can turn you off something that you previously liked (such as a book). You seem to have assumed Camilla was using "turn off" in the former sense, when in fact it was the latter.
P.S. Only butting in because my opinion was asked. Now that I have come in like a sniper in the night and spotted the source of the misunderstanding with lightning speed, I will draw my cloak over my face and vanish into the darkness.
(Mixed metaphors ftw!)
P.S. Only butting in because my opinion was asked. Now that I have come in like a sniper in the night and spotted the source of the misunderstanding with lightning speed, I will draw my cloak over my face and vanish into the darkness.
(Mixed metaphors ftw!)
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
Hype
- 30/06/2010 09:52:06 AM
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"I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief."
- 30/06/2010 12:27:01 PM
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Hype usually turns me right off things
- 30/06/2010 01:24:46 PM
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Just because you love language and are a perfectionist...
- 01/07/2010 03:00:35 AM
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She was using it transitively, not intransitively.
- 01/07/2010 11:15:47 PM
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As a native American, the way she used the word seemed completely natural.
- 02/07/2010 09:28:27 PM
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There's irony in this...
- 01/07/2010 11:17:43 AM
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Makes me want not to read it.
- 30/06/2010 06:22:40 PM
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