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Is the statement "If I divorce you, I divorce you" considered an explicit divorce or a promise of divorce?

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The phrases "If I divorce you, if I divorce you" are neither an explicit divorce nor a promise of one. Rather, they are a condition without mention of its correlative. A condition that has no answer does not convey meaning, and according to linguists, these phrases are not considered proper speech.

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