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lack of funds. However, it doesn't mean that what we have done up to
now is going to be a total waste.)
I: Il!.. : C/ueLlitr
P< 1; ~~~s$&&ab>l:S~-r%&gg*ab>;hcf~~&ab>~
(Although I say that I cannot speak Japanese, it doesn't mean that I
cannot speak it at all.)
ltb.61<
80Si i$$%d>bCb~bifTibfib>$, 01110 i~~t@lt&tbf.
37FbW l:,g,i
(I don't mean that I don't understand what you are saying, but I think
you'd better give up this plan after all.)
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5%]%i;t:
~g.&iiaj5.'ab>;bef~t;t.a~.~7~, Lhb>%$b1b>T L A
i
(I don't mean that there is no hope, but you'd better not expect too
much.)
Ot $6
&0A$Ml/>f?kba 5 ;bCfTiiQb>tvTf $, $$~&LL:L>~: ii,~,b\3-@
LJ 0
(I don't mean that I don't like him, but I do not want to many him.)
ZbkLki k f.lf LTb1k b-?kLTb>b> kb>j bGfTC&hb>,
(Doing only what you are told to do is just not enough.)
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Vri I:!..
A: ~0% he&&< @d~btsb>/vT-$-d..
(Can't this patient be saved (lit. at all)?)
B: bl0, -? 3 bl j bcf TI&& 0 3*/v,
(No, it is not that he can't be saved.)

1. Wake de wa nai, the negative form of wake da, denies what is implied
either in the previous statement (e.g., KS(A) and Exs.(a) - (d)) or in the
following statement (e.g., KS(B) and Exs.(e) - (g)). In either case, wake
de wa nai sentences and the previous (or following) sentences are often
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(+ wake da (this volume; DBJG: 531-34))
2. In some situations the ideas whose implications are denied by wake de