I'm not wiping your tables. - English example sentence

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Ooneykcall January 5, 2014 January 5, 2014 at 4:39:02 PM UTC

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This is to mean a sharp refusal, right?

AlanF_US January 5, 2014 January 5, 2014 at 5:26:37 PM UTC

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The exact intention of the Hebrew was ambiguous: "I refuse to wipe your tables" vs. "Don't worry, I'm not wiping your tables now". As I do with all the sentences of the form "I'm not A-ing your B" (of which fekundulo has added many), I deliberately preserve the ambiguity in English.