In an episode of
Zo heurt het eigenlijk, a Dutch TV programme on high society lifestyle, one can hear Lady Vicky van Asch van Wijck née Freifrau von Papen utter the following
praeteritio to let us know that the grounds of her nice country estate Prattenburg do not belong just to her husband and herself but are open to visitors, so to all of us:
"ik wil niet zo ver gaan om te zeggen "Het is van ons allemaal", maar in feite is het toch van ons allemaal."
'I don't want to go as far as to say "It belongs to all of us", but in fact is does belong to all of us.'
Maybe unbeknownst to her, this is a contradiction, as she clearly does go so far as to say what she's saying. Perhaps she meant the first part of the sentence as a hedge: 'I normally wouldn't want to declare this so openly (because it might sound as if we're bragging about our services to the public), but since you're asking me...'.
In an episode of Zo heurt het eigenlijk, a Dutch TV programme on high society lifestyle, one can hear Lady Vicky van Asch van Wijck née Freifrau von Papen utter the following praeteritio to let us know that the grounds of her nice country estate Prattenburg do not belong just to her husband and herself but are open to visitors, so to all of us:
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