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by WayTooUgly on August 26th, 2009
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If I understand your question correctly, and the time without an answer tends to tell me that, I'd say whatever you're reading is fairly dated and the practice has fallen off (read: is very old).
It is/was a way of saying, "I'm saying *this* (but I really mean *this*), as in my example above.
It's kinda stylistic and not too fashionable these days.
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