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Don't hold back - tell us exactly how you feel...
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With the tagline "Because you're Wookie it"[^]
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Except at a funeral.
- Demetri Martin
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No, there are many situations where it is not the same.
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Please let Demetri.Martin@gmail.com know.
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Why?
Oh, and BTW you have publicised his email address. If you did not have his permission to do that then you are breaking a number of Data Protection laws.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Why?
I figured you'd want to correct his joke.
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I hate it when politicians do that: "I sorry if anyone was offended by ..." rather than "I apologise for giving offence when ..."
The second version is taking responsibility, the former is blaming the offended.
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Often true, but sometimes the easily offended are to blame.
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Exactly. I use that one all the time.
If I'm wrong, I'll own up. But if some snowflake decides to take offense at something I say, that's really not my problem and I hardly ever miss an opportunity to tell them exactly that - whether they understand it as I intended or not.
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So the first one is correct about 95% of the time? 
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No, "I'm sorry" is never an apology; it simply means "I share your sorrow" or "I feel your pain".
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "I'm sorry" is never an apology; i
Did you mean to write that? Because in English the way to apologize is to literally say "I'm sorry."
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ZurdoDev wrote: in English the way to apologize is to literally say "I'm sorry."
Or better still say, "I apologize".
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Or better still say, "I apologize".
From my experience, the two are identical.
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No, people simply use the word wrong, often to conceal the fact that they are not apologizing.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: people simply use the word wrong
In the US? Really?
I've never thought there was a difference between "I apologize" and "I'm sorry." What experiences have taught you otherwise?
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To say sorry simply means that you "feel bad" about what happened, whether you were the cause of it or not.
To apologize literally means to explain.
An apology is where you explain what happened, or why you did what you did.
So it's possible to say sorry without apologizing.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Interesting. I had never heard that opinion before.
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Me either. It's really given me something to think about.
I have spat apologies back in people's faces in the past, because they refused to use the word sorry. For me, knowing that they care about my mental state is far more valuable to me than understanding why they did what they did. I don't really care why they did it in fact.
I was always taught that "I'm sorry" is what you say when you're apologising and "I apologise" is what you say when you're not actually sorry, but wish to move past the barrier created by the incident.
But then again, I guess it's like all language.
The important part is the idea communicated, not the sounds used to do so.
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Only because the extended usage doesn't differentiate between both options it doesn't necessarily mean that the mean the same.
In german or in spanish they are used similarly too but they are not semantically equal.
And the "psicological" aspect is a bit different too.
The spanish "Sorry" is a reflective verb (I am receiving / feeling the action)
The spanish "Apologies" is an active verb (I am doing the action)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I was a reading about the reggae-tarian diet - potatoes, carrots, turnips, parsnips etc.
Its strictly roots.
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I could definitely dig that diet.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: I was a reading about the reggae-tarian diet - potatoes, carrots, turnips, parsnips etc.
No grass? 
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Johnny J. wrote: Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: I was a reading about the reggae-tarian diet - potatoes, carrots, turnips, parsnips etc.
No grass?
I'm counting 21 meals in a week and just 4 ingredients so far... Surely you'd be able to suck-down a marley then pull a wombat at some point?
Wombat
Australian Marsupial that eats roots and leaves.
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