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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/15/2021 5:14 PM, Will Martin
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:DD55CE50-B814-4504-9AED-7BF144E898F0@mac.com">This is an
American joke. A woman who gets asked out on a date and doesn’t
want to go with that person might say, “I can’t go to the dance
with you. I need to wash my hair.”
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<div class="">In other words, it is such a ridiculous reason to
not go to a dance, it’s obvious that the REAL reason is, you
don’t want to go to the dance with the person who asked you.</div>
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<div class="">This fits SuStel’s interpretation because it doesn’t
matter whether the hair is clean or dirty. Maybe there’s a
change from being dirty. Maybe there isn’t. You need to wash it
so you don’t have to go out with the person who asked you. It’s
even better if you imply that washing it would not cause it to
be any cleaner than it already is.</div>
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<p>That's not the reason.</p>
<p><b>vISay'moH<br>
</b>The cause of my hair being in a clean state is me.<br>
</p>
<p><b>vISay'choHmoH<br>
</b>The cause of my hair going from an unclean state to a clean
state is me.</p>
<p><b>vISay'nISmoH<br>
</b>The cause of my hair being in a clean state is me. I have a
need to cause this.</p>
<p><b>vISay'nISchoHmoH<br>
</b>The cause of my hair going from an unclean state to a clean
state is me. I have a need to cause this.<br>
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<p><b>DaH jIbwIj vISay'nISmoH<br>
</b>I now have a need to be the cause of my hair being in a clean
state.</p>
<p>It has nothing to do with offering insincere explanations. It is
simply not important to the speaker to express a change of state
of his hair. Needing to be the cause of his hair's cleanliness is
all that matters. If someone you genuinely wanted to be with asked
you out to dinner, but you actually had scheduled a shampoo at
this time, you could say this sentence completely sincerely, and
you wouldn't need <b>-choH.</b> The point is not to express a
change in cleanliness; the point is only to express that you're
engaged to be the cause of cleanliness.</p>
<p>Now, if my son were to get mud all over his hair, I might tell
him, <b>DaH jIblIj yISay'choHmoH</b><i> Get your hair clean now!</i>
Here, the change of state of his hair is very much the point of
what I'm expressing.<br>
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