no serious expectation on the part of the questioner, and a failure to show the next day would not harm the friendship. In this case the genre of the relationship between the two speakers, specifically the genre of the relationship during participatory sporting events, is as important (perhaps more so) than the genre of the conversation. This is evident since there might not be a larger context of conversation between the two within which the above statement can be interpreted. Two points can be
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