Saturday, February 08, 2025

When there is a fire, ...

 

Hong Kong is probably the only city in the world which   says "When there is a fire,...". Not that it's grammatically wrong, but it's kind of pessimistic, isn't it? It's like "Sooner or later, there will be a fire. And 'when there is a fire, .....'."  (Other cities say "If ...", "In case of...", "In the event of ...", ....




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