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"ref": "1992 March 19, soc.culture.asean (Usenet):",
"text": "Being someone who doesn't understand Hokkien, I catch no ball as to what you say :-).",
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"ref": "1999 April 29, soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):",
"text": "Ah! I see the problem. Fearless is only semi-literate. In which case, I can understand why he catch no ball. I guess we must ALL show patience to the slow-witted.",
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"ref": "2000, Chong Yen Chung, Clarence Plays the Numbers: A Novel, page 83:",
"text": "\"Infini... what? Sorry, I catch no ball. Again, please.\"\n\"Infinitessimal - small, small winnings, Chin,\" said Clarence...",
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"ref": "2005 March 23, soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):",
"text": "\"The sense of meaning halal should debated on either symbolic reminder of hygiene also define the level of hygiene to the level of a stomach ache or death that is what make sense!\"\nHuh? What kind of English is this? Catch no ball....LOL.",
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"ref": "2010 December 15, “The 'catch no ball but will keep trying’ award Inception”, in TODAY:",
"text": "THE ‘CATCH NO BALL BUT WILL KEEP TRYING’ AWARD INCEPTION Only the incomparable Christopher Nolan, after reviving the superhero genre, could have had the cojones to convince a tightfisted big movie studio to greenlight a movie as ridiculously convoluted and richly layered as this.",
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"ref": "2013 August 14, soc.culture.china (Usenet):",
"text": "Catch no ball of what you're talking and saying in your content. Talking and saying, and writing are different ways of expressions. They are not the same.",
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