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Boolean Logic (was: change variables
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| William M. Klein 2006-07-14, 3:55 am |
| "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Sure.
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> "Who yowls about..."
> AND
> "Who smiles..."
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> The conjunction (AND) with a repeated interrogative pronoun (WHO), implies two
> separate groups. If it was the same group it would be " Who yowls about... and
> smiles..." NO second "Who".
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Pete,
Are you serious (and sure <G> ) about this?
Give the English compound interorgatory sentence:
Who is Tall and who is Fat?
I don't see anything in the wording that implies (much less requires) that the
two groups are "separate"?
I person may be in one, two, or niether categories
--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
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| Pete Dashwood 2006-07-14, 6:55 pm |
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"William M. Klein" <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Pete,
> Are you serious (and sure <G> ) about this?
No, of course not :-) I was winding Doc up...
Pete.
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In article <4hqr84Fsuf8U1@individual.net>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:
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>"William M. Klein" <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote in message
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[snip]
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>No, of course not :-) I was winding Doc up...
Hmmmm... in deference to those to whom English is a second language I'll
try to avoid contriving a pun about a windbag's woeful windings having
wound up, wonderfully, wounding no-one.
DD
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| charles hottel 2006-07-15, 6:55 pm |
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<docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:e99dpt$ste$1@reader2.panix.com...
> [warning - attributions might be a bit dodgy here]
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> Hmmmm... in deference to those to whom English is a second language I'll
> try to avoid contriving a pun about a windbag's woeful windings having
> wound up, wonderfully, wounding no-one.
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> DD
Avoiding contrivining a pun while stating the pun is not avoiding contriving
a pun!
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| In article <613a$44b924dc$4f9c690$18011@DIALUPUSA.NET>,
charles hottel <jghottel@yahoo.com> wrote:
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><docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:e99dpt$ste$1@reader2.panix.com...
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>Avoiding contrivining a pun while stating the pun is not avoiding contriving
>a pun!
Ah well... as stated above, 'I'll try'... I guess I did not succeed,
wouldn't be the first time and it won't be the last.
DD
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