Re: The.
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 22, 2001, 11:07 |
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Adrian Morgan scripsit:
> Consider this. If I said that my waist measurement in centimetres is my year
> of birth minus the nineteen (minus definite article nineteen), that's
> seventy-seven centimetres.
It took me many minutes of pondering to get this; the trouble is not
the "the", but the equivocation over "minus", which in this case does
not have its technical meaning, but is a synonym for "without".
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter
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