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> I believe they fully except [sic] modern medicine for instance?

Wait a second. "Except" in this context means to refuse. The word you want, "Accept", means to give consent. Normally a malaprop like this is benign, but this one reverses the meaning of the sentence in which it appears.




Yeah, I had already parsed the phrase 3 or 4 times by the time I finally understood what had happened.




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