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True, but that doesn't mean you can use words that fundamentally change the meaning of the sentence and then pass it off as the same thing.
by Rooster61 10y ago
True, but that doesn't mean you can use words that fundamentally change the meaning of the sentence and then pass it off as the same thing.
- sowbug 10y agoI could care less.
- spdustin 10y agoCouldn't?
- kbenson 10y agoAt the risk of being too pedantic, that's the point. The incorrect phrasing is often used to mean the original thing, when the incorrect phrasing fundamentally changes the actual meaning of the sentence. That said, this is a chain of comments that skirts dangerously close to not-contributing IMO, since I'm not sure making cryptic comments that lead readers that don't happen to reach the right context sensitive interpretation to produce more comments asking about it aren't actually worse than a pure non sequitur, from a discussion point of view. Having a clever counter-example (as the GP does) is good. Leaving it unexplained and ambiguous is not.
- ZoF 10y agoClever.
- booleandilemma 10y agoFor all intensive purposes
- fitchjo 10y agoI (hopefully) see what you did there :)
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