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572 wake da
you know, but whether or not all of it has brought us happiness is ques-
tionable.)
rim- It!.. 1 ~ 5
(c) %LiA@%a)x<=L?-5?2%.Wf%LTb'&;hlfTTdf, Za).WfR
j3.bb'6b'6%&'Z kfl53j3.O bTo
(I've been doing research on animal communication, as you know, and
various interesting facts have become known from this research.)

(As you know, whatever you do, whether or not you have built a firm
foundation for that is a key to your progress, and in fact, you can say
the same thing about foreign language study.)
h* lri e XL ts -21x
(e) %A%iA$53~i;f b a)%S;habl$, BLd.if bkL~bl&@~~~?'&%q
B LTblbbCflF?,
(Babies, themselves, do not talk, but the truth of the matter is that they
are learning language when they are spoken to.)

(f) &*iA+x>f~-9%%OIi?bhakI:%rZ6i=Z~-C~b51f c ih!..ll?ti
ktrb, +i5>1;7-+m~i;f:~'~~=-9a ~-w~-w~;.;hi~r~,
(We would be in trouble immediately if computers were taken away
from us now, but the fact is that we were getting by without them a
decade ago.)

1. In casual conversation wake, an informal form of wake da, is used quite
frequently to give slight emphasis to a fact when the speaker does not
expect the hearer to know about it. (1) presents an example.

2. Wake da, as introduced here, should not be confused with the use in
which two propositions X and Y have the relationship "given X, one is