"...are you saying that you and the rest of the Monks will earn my salary for my from now on if ...."

...errr; uh... (gulp) Not exactly. :-()

But, as a continued association with us will demonstrate, there are those who mistake the Monastery for a free, code-writing machine. In this case, however, the remark was intended as a humorous intro to a suggestion that avoiding ambiguity sometimes requires more verbosity than is needed to adequately frame a question for resolution between one's own ears.

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