Re: OT: Musical languistics
| From: | Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 7:08 |
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From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
Subject: Re: OT: Re: Musical languistics
> Quoting And Rosta <a.rosta@...>:
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> > But I agree with Sturgeon's Law, except that I'd say everything's 99%
> > crud, of which, 2% is excellent crud.
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> Reminds me; does this English expression mean that 2% of the total is
crud, or
> that 1.98% is?
1.98% He referred to the 99% crud, then said "of which", meaning "of that
thing that we're talking about", "2% is excellent crud". So 2% of that 99%
is still crud, but it's excellent crud. I'll leave it to you to dig through
the remaining 98% of the 99% crud if you wish.