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:: I'm sure I won't. Qwotegeneral "forgotten to revise for the exam"endqwote is from the explain.
 
:: I'm sure I won't. Qwotegeneral "forgotten to revise for the exam"endqwote is from the explain.
 
Please be aware that "revise" means "edit, generally to make the text conform to a belief" to me, while to a Britisher it means what "do homework" or "study" means to me.
 
Please be aware that "revise" means "edit, generally to make the text conform to a belief" to me, while to a Britisher it means what "do homework" or "study" means to me.
 
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:Revise does not mean this in British, or as we say in the UK, Proper English.  Revise m
These comments about "revise" make absolutely NO sense!![[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.88|162.158.214.88]] 11:23, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
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:These comments about "revise" make absolutely NO sense!![[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.88|162.158.214.88]] 11:23, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 
:You can use the view history button on top of the page to find that where it currently says "This can be added to something such as a general "forgotten to prepare for the exam you're sitting" to build upon various[...]" it did say "revise" instead of "prepare" in an earlier revision --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 11:35, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 
:You can use the view history button on top of the page to find that where it currently says "This can be added to something such as a general "forgotten to prepare for the exam you're sitting" to build upon various[...]" it did say "revise" instead of "prepare" in an earlier revision --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 11:35, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

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Could it just be that Megan is anthrophobic? 162.158.62.247 16:22, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

She's friendly (and socially proximate) enough with Cueball. That said, I know first hand how one can be asocial in general (in the verging on mildly enochlophobic sense) and still somehow tolerate acquaintances acquired in familial or vocational settings. (I'm pretty sure it's the obvious current mass nosophobic tendency being referenced, myself. If not, it's a far more complicated joke than it needs to be.) 162.158.34.222 19:26, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
To misquote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, no, that's just the normal paranoia we all have- a couple of million years of strangers killing everybody in the tribe, leaves the survivors with a deep set instinct identifying and running away from .... strangers User:Seeberboringert (talk) 21:16, 25 March 2020 (UTC)


This is an instructive video Why the US already practiced social distancing before coronavirus Seebert (talk) 21:16, 25 March 2020 (UTC)


"Revise" seems to be British for "study." So if u 4got to revise /study, and show up in class with without a pencil and naked just tell the people that u r dreaming and as soon as the dream gets interesting you will wake up, because your dreams are boring. 108.162.216.236 21:50, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

I think you'll find the word in the comment is "REALIZE"Seebert (talk) 21:53, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
I'm sure I won't. Qwotegeneral "forgotten to revise for the exam"endqwote is from the explain.

Please be aware that "revise" means "edit, generally to make the text conform to a belief" to me, while to a Britisher it means what "do homework" or "study" means to me.

Revise does not mean this in British, or as we say in the UK, Proper English. Revise m
These comments about "revise" make absolutely NO sense!!162.158.214.88 11:23, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
You can use the view history button on top of the page to find that where it currently says "This can be added to something such as a general "forgotten to prepare for the exam you're sitting" to build upon various[...]" it did say "revise" instead of "prepare" in an earlier revision --Lupo (talk) 11:35, 26 March 2020 (UTC)