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From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new
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"Marius Amado Alves" <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> a �crit dans le message de
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> <linguistics>
> Right. The interpretation of "stupid" as "obvious" must be the most stupid
> and less obvious one :-) Unfortunately it's an established metaphor, at
> least in the "stupid question" collocation.
> </linguistics>
>
When one of my students asks "May I ask a stupid question?", I always reply:
"There are no stupid questions. Only stupid answers".

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