Path: news.nzbot.com!not-for-mail
From: "sky blue" <paa19437@anet.net.tw>
Newsgroups: alt.languages.english
Subject: a weird sentence
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:46:23 +0800
Organization: albasani.net
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <h68o2b$tnd$1@news.albasani.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
format=flowed;
charset="big5";
reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: news.albasani.net FfhIYqZss3rY0Qu6cDDwcUdKmm9Yo4dU6O7csKv6AlMZntenxhKBQPyxcdsh0BOmNlUtj4u777NDaFsjEBNfXo7+ec8llzeIctpomGSr8r0TAVg/i2EkTPzr8agRBc/C
X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:46:36 +0000 (UTC)
X-User-ID: 4XOaDqq2bhPE5G6aIOvvWMmDkDTBBaFmc7nC8oX1WGEGjpI06q+5O/bzL5kexgYhMFPtm5E7PsFF7HFt5gXm5Q==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
Cancel-Lock: sha1:vGEgIo672MKRwe7RfaVrMcgZOR0=
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: naafzkjIUh5zUJG1G7OpdYa73V2hRBRcN2ZhHWT/XFQ=
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Xref: news.nzbot.com alt.languages.english:1642
Q: When a bookstore sells a textbook on credit is its earnings process
complete?
Can anyone tell me what this question is asking?
The structure of this sentence looks weird to me; I can't make any sense out
of it
especially when I see the way the answer is given.
The answer to that question is:
A: The bookstore can record sales for these books minus an amount expected
for returns.
This seems like a weird way to answer a "WHEN" question, without answering
"when".
|
|