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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ecn.purdue.edu!helz
  3. From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
  4. Subject: Re: Is Microsoft using "Force"???  
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan6.235920.26687@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
  6. Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
  7. Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
  8. References: <1993Jan5.011546.28910@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8326@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan5.215257.11908@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan6.050849.27895@umr.edu>
  9. Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:59:20 GMT
  10. Lines: 40
  11.  
  12. In article <1993Jan6.050849.27895@umr.edu>, ckincy@cs.umr.edu (Charles Kincy) writes:
  13. |> [good reasoning, until....*gasp*]
  14. |> 
  15. |> >Lets go to the arbiter of language and see what it says about "force" and
  16. |> >"coerce".  I'll tell you what mine dictionary has to say about them--and
  17. |> >don't believe me just because I said it--you all have dictionaries too so 
  18. |> >look it up for yourself:
  19. |> >
  20. |> >    COERCE suggests overcoming resistance or unwillingness by actual 
  21. |> >    or threatened violence or pressure.
  22. |> >
  23. |> >In order for an action to properly be called "coercion" there MUST be the
  24. |> >threat of or actional violence, of the which and by the way so there may be
  25. |> >no confusion on this point here is the definition of violence:
  26. |> 
  27. |> Hmmm...shall we diagram that sentence?
  28.  
  29.  
  30.  
  31. |> Coerce     |    suggests     |    overcoming   |    resistance
  32. |> -----------+-----------------+-----------------+--+-----------------+---. . .
  33. |>            |                                   |or| unwillingness   |
  34. |>                                                +--------------------+
  35. |>      
  36. |> . . . \---------
  37. |>        \by           violence
  38. |>         \----------+------\----------\
  39. |>                    |       \....or....\
  40. |>                    |        \          \
  41. |>                    |         \actual    \threatened
  42. |>                    +--+            \          \
  43. |>                    |or|  pressure   \          \
  44. |>                    +--+-----------------------------
  45. |> 
  46. |> 
  47. |> Ooooh.  Bet you feel stupid now, eh?  :)  I hope your degree isn't in English.
  48.  
  49. My degree is in Natural Language Processing--don't teach Grampa how to parse.
  50. Better look up the definition of "pressure" before you call either me or 
  51. the argument stupid.  
  52.