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Subject: It must certainly can !?
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by: Arnaud Fournet - Fri, 4 Aug 2023 05:58 UTC

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by: Ruud Harmsen - Fri, 4 Aug 2023 06:56 UTC

Thu, 3 Aug 2023 22:58:07 -0700 (PDT): Arnaud Fournet
<fournet.arnaud@wanadoo.fr> scribeva:

>is this correct ?
>Here at 27mn33
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmpe0WaA9xg

In Dutch it is: het moet zeker kunnen.
In English, this is wrong. It should certainly be possible.
So perhaps where you encountered it, it is translated Dutch?
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by: Ross Clark - Fri, 4 Aug 2023 09:24 UTC

On 4/08/2023 5:58 p.m., Arnaud Fournet wrote:
> is this correct ?
> Here at 27mn33
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmpe0WaA9xg
>

The word is "most".

That is not to say that France cannot buy uranium in other places...
(2xnegative)

It [most certainly] can.
(emphatic affirmative)

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by: Christian Weisgerber - Fri, 4 Aug 2023 09:21 UTC

On 2023-08-04, Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> is this correct ?
> Here at 27mn33
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmpe0WaA9xg

"it most certainly can"

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Subject: Re: It must certainly can !?
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by: Arnaud Fournet - Fri, 4 Aug 2023 11:23 UTC

Le vendredi 4 août 2023 à 11:30:09 UTC+2, Christian Weisgerber a écrit :
> On 2023-08-04, Arnaud Fournet <fournet...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> > is this correct ?
> > Here at 27mn33
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmpe0WaA9xg
> "it most certainly can"

ok
I misheard most as must.

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Subject: Re: It must certainly can !?
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by: bruce bowser - Sat, 5 Aug 2023 18:56 UTC

On Friday, August 4, 2023 at 5:25:32 AM UTC-4, Ross Clark wrote:
> On 4/08/2023 5:58 p.m., Arnaud Fournet wrote:
> > is this correct ?
> > Here at 27mn33
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmpe0WaA9xg
> >
> The word is "most".
>
> That is not to say that France cannot buy uranium in other places...
> (2xnegative)
>
> It [most certainly] can.
> (emphatic affirmative)

Could "other" be a negative under some circumstances?

Subject	Author
It must certainly can !?	Arnaud Fournet
Re: It must certainly can !?	Ruud Harmsen
Re: It must certainly can !?	Ross Clark
Re: It must certainly can !?	bruce bowser
Re: It must certainly can !?	Christian Weisgerber
Re: It must certainly can !?	Arnaud Fournet