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 Message 4085 
 Mike Powell to ALEXANDER KORYAGIN 
 Funny story about Russian 
 20 Feb 24 08:45:00 
 
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>  AH> Depends on what the fence was made of. I think Gleb has a point in
>  AH> that this announcement may have been written on a scrap of
>  AH> cardboard which the protagonist attached to the fence using
>  AH> whatever came readily to hand.... :-)

>IMHO when you say "to post" it implies the mail service. Give me an example if
> am wrong. At the very least the man could nail his message. :)

It can mean that.  I think that meaning is more often used in British
English than here in America.

It can also mean to attach a message to a physical cork bulletin board,
wall, fencepost, telephone pole, etc., such as "I posted a for sale flyer
on the break room bulletin board" or "I posted the lost pet flyers to
several phone poles in the neighborhood."


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