[Lexicog] negative word for amazed

[Chaz and Helga Mortensen]

Well, Peter, if you buy me a lottery ticket, let me know when I win!

-Chaz > >
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> I wonder if the issue here may be being confused by dialect differences.
> In my British English "shock" cannot be positive. The above sentence
> would make sense only if the speaker was someone who had spoken out
> about the evils of lotteries but for whom someone else had bought a
ticket.
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> Peter Kirk
> peter at qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
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