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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: More advertising
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.041533.3989@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 04:15:33 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <8230@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec29.181546.1151@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec30.181522.5719@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.181522.5719@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >In <1992Dec29.181546.1151@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >
- >> So we're agreed that using the word "all" is a lie, right? So
- >> *pull the word*.
- >
- >Yes, it's a 'lie' in the same sense that any usage of the words 'all',
- >'every', and 'always' is a 'lie'. Shall we delete them from the
- >language, or shall we instead assume that people are going to
- >understand the language as it is typically used?
-
- "All", "Every", and "Always" have perfectly legitimate uses.
- Advertising software is rarely one of them.
-
-
- >Hell, MS-DOS won't run all does programs. MS-Windows certainly won't
- >run all Windows programs (OSWin runs more of them than MS-Windows
- >does). Let's force them to change the name of the products, since
- >using those names implies that they will run those programs AND THEY
- >DON'T.
-
- Fred, if you can show me an MS-DOS ad that says that it
- runs "all DOS programs", or a Windows ad that says it "runs all
- Windows programs", then I'll lobby to have the company change
- it. I have never seen such an ad - I don't honestly believe
- that one exists.
-
- -Phil
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