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- From: Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: another opposite in action (or is that 'inaction'?)
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:11:50
- Organization: Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
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- References: <9301251815.AA19694@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
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- In-reply-to: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:15:11 +0000
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- In article <9301251815.AA19694@pizzabox.demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
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- Paraphrased from someone's posting on another group:
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- : On a related note, does anyone know if <organisation name deleted>
- : have net access yet ? Much as I
- : would like to sell them <my product>, I doubt it would be
- : beyond their means.
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- Clearly the use of 'I doubt that' here means 'I'm afraid that...'
- or 'I have no doubt that...'
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- I think you find this a bit in North East England.
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- Chris
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- --
- on sighting mathematicians it should unhook the algebra from their
- minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should
- unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra
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