Brian,
you can count on me to support you for the verbosity medal. In your longlong
blurb 4 lines are randomly printed, but from the 5th to the 2nd from bottom
there is an empty word-space at ~60% of the lines, neetly arranged as an
internal (in-text) margin. I admired it.
Bruno, btw, is grammatically incorrect, "their" can refer to singular AND
plural, unless it refers to not expressed multiple possessions (those are
theirs).
And let me admire the topics we are concerned with on this list: it seems we
have no more (practical, reasonable, stringent, actual, etc.) problems in
the whole wide world.
John M
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Brian Tenneson <tennesb.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> I find that words and their meaning can have magical properties, despite
> this discussion not seeming to me to have bearing on my article; perhaps a
> new thread on semantics can be started? It matters not to me.
>
> For example, if I say all that is is all that is, then I am not really
> saying much. On the other hand, if I say that all that is is the universe
> generated by a universal set then at least that has some content as
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> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Marchal Bruno <marchal.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> JamesTauber wrote:
>>
>> >1) the problem is theirs not ours
>> >vs
>> >2) it is their problem not our problem
>>
>>
>> So, if I understand well, our problems are ours, and their problems are
>> theirs. Thanks for the teaching: I didn't dare to put a "s" on "their", up
>> to now, especially after a plural (but only contingently so if I can say).
>>
>> Semantically, I'm afraid theirs problems can be ours too, and our problems
>> can be theirs too, by the Shit Spreading Principle ... or by the unicity of
>> the first person ...
>>
>> Am I grammactically correct?
>> Am I semantically correct?
>> Am I politically correct?
>> Am I self-referentially correct?
>> :)?
>>
>> Bruno
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >James
>> >(who happened to do his undergrad linguistics degree where Russell did
>> >his undergrad physics/maths)
>>
>>
>> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>
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