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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Embarko could be read as a veto on disembarkation, which seems roughly embargoish from where I’m sitting:
Is there an embarko on weight as I believe my quoted amount is more than Quoted?
an embarko on arms sales to. Pakistan and to provide her !with bombers, jet’.fighters, and armored personnel carriers.
Technically I think they can look but there maybe an embarko on them ie a WWE Policy preventing them from posting.
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Anywhere else that -o has a negative-looking usage (that could be parlayed into a negative meaning)? (Your example of veto counts as a possible/probable for me—are there others? No itself?)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-12-20 12:50:49)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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