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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“I bet to differ,†Roger said, “Methinks your pictures slightly dead.
his jacob black role. and that taylor launter was to young to play. but i bet to differ because he is really hot with a double ‘t’
It isn’t enough to have some well-meaning friend remind you that ‘life is hard, and at the end, you die.†Or that ‘God never promised you a rose garden.’ ¶ I bet to differ. There are apparently clear and unambiguous promises in Scripture that He did so.
Apparently there are thousands of them. Surprised me, really.
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It is probably in some degree a blend of “I beg to differ†with “I(’ll/’d) bet not/you’re wrongâ€.
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It fits pretty well semantically. What does begging have to do with it (politeness being passé and all)? But since “I bet†means something like “I go on record as thinking it is true (that)â€, the eggcorn easily comes out meaning “I go on record as thinking that the differing opinion is right.â€
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I wonder too, if people are less familair with the use of beg in this way. They simply choose bet as the word they think they are hearing, because beg makes no sense to them.
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