Re: Wolter claims secret code hidden in Kensington Runestone

"IEJ" <Iejohansson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:


>"Paul Murray" <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
>news:16%le.67445$Ge2.25924@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> In article <FUPle.25733$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

>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.

God bless you, Inger, you bring such joy to the lives of your readers!
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