Re: Wolter claims secret code hidden in Kensington Runestone

"IEJ" <Iejohansson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Paul Murray" <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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> > In article <FUPle.25733$d5.175475@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, IEJ wrote:
> > > Sawfish,
> > > you forgot to read and understand what you had to learn before you
wrote
> > > your first academic essay, thesis and so on. Your problem.
> >
> > You wrote:
> > A circleproof never ever proves nothing
> >
> > That is a double-negative, and hence means:
> > A circleproof always proves something
>
> Sorry but you too seem to have missed the point. 'Never, ever' is used not
> as a double-negative but as a clarification of the underlying question
'how
> often or how long' related to 'never', but of course missed that as well.
> Just as it's a clarification in:
> http://www.sparknotes.com/writing/style/topic_154.html
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> and in
>
http://www.testmagic.com/Knowledge_Base/TOEFL/official_explanations/97_kit_t
> est_b/structure.htm
>
> and in
> http://www.math.odu.edu/~keyes/quotations/grammar.html
>
>
>
> That I missed the ',' is an other thing.

Sorry, but "never, ever" combined in the same clause with "nothing" counts
as a double negative. That's what Paul was referring to.

You lose. Case closed.

Alan

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Alan Crozier
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