| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 15:02 |
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:40:22PM +0000, Joe wrote:> Maybe it was borrowed from English. But with 'confirm' it's just > nonsense, anyway.Not nonsense. The idea is that every rule has an exception, so finding one doesn't constitute disproving the rule. Logically, of course, it doesn't prove the rule, either, but the expression still makes sense.
| Joe <joe@...> | |
| Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |