Re: OT: Proving the rule (was Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 15:02 |
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En réponse à Joe :
>Maybe it was borrowed from English. But with 'confirm' it's just
>nonsense, anyway.
Really? I find it makes much more sense with "confirm" than with "prove".
An exception always disproves a rule, but the fact that it's but an
exception (i.e. in the minority) confirms that we can talk about a rule for
the majority of cases. I've always taken the expression to mean this, and
it's meaningful only if you use "confirm".
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.