"Come" now has a double message: *Separation is best because a quick response means isolation.
Such a response often means the agency is not taking part.
Parrot-fashion responses may not mean that the person knows where they are now.
"And it's hard to tell at this point whether the response means anything."
In some cases, a quick response can mean the difference between life and death.
She didn't know how, not for certain, but one response meant one thing, the other something else.
For preschool children, the response can mean simply telling them you will make sure it doesn't happen.
Clearly her response, or lack of it, didn't mean very much to him.
A 1xx response means any response in the range of 100 to 199.
But at the same time, such a disproportionate response could only mean that the officer he'd shot wasn't dead.