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- From: clever@sequent.com (Cathy Cleverley)
- Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.184856.2218@torsqnt.tor.sequent.com>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:48:56 GMT
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- stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
-
- >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
-
- Thank you, thank you, thank you.~
-
- (I see nothing wrong with *slight* exagerations when describing
- quantities of things :-)
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