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Based on this:

> Simon gave my backpack back to me intact.

I'd say yes.



That reading skill you have is really impressive.

I can't even imagine a world in which everybody could do it!

(sarcasm intended for the grand-poster, not you)


OK, perhaps there are regional differences in language, or perhaps I'm just a moron, to me the "backpack being intact" does not obviously say anything about the contents of the backpack, to me it's a synonym for "undamaged", and neither are phrases I would use to describe the original contents of the backpack all still being present.

Either it's an American English thing, or if other Americans did not share my confusion then I guess it's just a me thing, and the appropriate response is for you to make fun of me and tell me I don't know how to read, so nice work.




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