Re:“It turns out”
by gabrielroth on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @08:53PM
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In the pet-lizard case, aren't you using the phrase with mild irony? Something like, "After painstaking analysis coupled with a few brilliant flashes of insight, I managed to deduce this totally obvious fact"?
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Re:“It turns out”
by carbocation on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @09:08PM
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Sometimes (often, even)! But with that particular example, it's actually more like, "I didn't ask the questions that many second-year medical students might ask after finding out a patient had salmonella."