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- From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
- Message-ID: <77585@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:36:02 GMT
- References: <JMD.93Jan22123711@lion.bear.com> <1993Jan23.054644.17038@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <MARTINC.93Jan23132913@grover.cs.unc.edu> <1993Jan25.144344.27709@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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- ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:
-
- >I'm glad to know I'm not the only person
- >that has discussions over whether "many" is more than "several", or who
- >proceeds to compute an approximate number when told that there are
- >"a ton of cats up for adoption".
-
- But were the speaker actually discussing the weight of the cats up
- for adoption, the sentence would be "there *is* a ton of cats up for
- adoption."
-
- Stef, refugee from Nitpickers Anonymous
- stef@apple.com
-