Re: OT: Proving the rule (was Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?)

--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
> En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen :
>
<snip>

>And as I
> said before, "confirm" makes much more sense than
> "prove" anyway (the
> correct origin of the expression indeed maps quite
> well my description with
> "confirm").
If I understand you correctly what you're sating is
that the sentence should read:  The (need for an)
exception proves the (existence of the) rule.

--gary

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