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From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 07:09 Mike Barnes wrote: > Andrew Usher <k_over_hbarc(a)yahoo.com>: > >'One' is not, grammatically, a pronoun. It is a nominalised adjective > >(the number one) that is used in place of a pronoun. > > That's a matter of perception rather than fact. Most people's perception > is different from yours, I suspect. Mine is based on logic. One declines like a noun, not a pronoun, and is clearly identical to the number one, which is a noun (adjective), not a pronoun. Andrew Usher
From: jmfbahciv on 23 Feb 2010 07:23 Brian M. Scott wrote: > R H Draney wrote: > > [...] > >> If you want a crank, find the person who came up with >> Daylight Saving Time.... > >> Then find his successor who decided that DST should apply >> for more of the year than "Standard" time....r > > I like DST; my only objection is that we don't have it all > year round. > I simply wish people would choose one and stop creating two jet lags/year. /BAH
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 07:10 Mike Barnes wrote: > Wrong. It's not believing that the first day of the week is a Sunday > that makes you a crank. > > What makes you a crank is writing that it's an incontrovertible fact. Isn't that a tautology though? If one believes something, one believes it to be true. Andrew Usher
From: António Marques on 23 Feb 2010 07:12 PaulJK wrote (23-02-2010 07:19): > Brian M. Scott wrote: >> R H Draney wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> If you want a crank, find the person who came up with >>> Daylight Saving Time.... >> >>> Then find his successor who decided that DST should apply >>> for more of the year than "Standard" time....r >> >> I like DST; my only objection is that we don't have it all >> year round. > > I would prefer if every 24 hour day was made longer by one > hour, i.e. 25 hours long. I know it would cause some strife > for many people but I for one and people like me wouldn't have > to suffer the pain of advancing my slow circadian rhythm clock > by an hour every morning. Heer, heer!
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 07:13
Adam Funk wrote: > > 'The Catholic Church' or simply 'The Church' refers to exactly one > > organisation. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Also, it's been > > longer than half a millennium if one includes the East. > > The "Roman Catholic Church", the "Old Catholic Church", and the > "Polish National Catholic Church" are independent of each other. Yes, but only one is called outside of itself _the_ Catholic Church. Andrew Usher |