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		hencq on May 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go in Go And to make it extra confusing there's "X is anything but Y" idiom which basically means what pvinis says.

pvinis on May 27, 2015 | [–]

aaah thats why i get confused. i thought its always one phrase, but its "all but" and "anything but". now i get it. lets just say this whole confusion is anything but unclear now. it used to be all but impossible to understand what people meant.

TazeTSchnitzel on May 27, 2015 | [–]

Oh, I didn't realise that either. Now I understand.

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