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Old 1st July 2009, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Antiphon View Post
So much fun, at another's expense.
Indeed.

A speaker implies ("suggests") something; a listener infers (or "deduces").

Examples:
The manager implied that I was a bad risk. I inferred from her remarks that she thought I was lazy.

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