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To: Sudetenland

>Are you sure you’re not a troll?

Yes.

>We have also concluded that you argue semantics over substance and that (again like most liberals) criticize grammar over substance.

I hate to break it to you [that’s a lie... I enjoy it], but grammar can be [and often is] KEY in determining the substance/meaning of a sentence; consider the following two sentences only one word is changed and that is in capitalization, even the word-ordering is the same:
I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.
I helped my uncle jack off a horse.

The two sentences mean two very different things, don’t they?

Order is key too, consider:
I’m afraid so.
I’m so afraid.

The two sentences mean two very different things, don’t they?


215 posted on 09/05/2010 12:24:08 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: RatsDawg; Little Pig; oldbrowser; Raycpa; 668 - Neighbor of the Beast; Mr Rogers; alecqss; ...
Are you sure you’re not a troll?

Yes.

We have also concluded that you argue semantics over substance and that (again like most liberals) criticize grammar over substance.

I hate to break it to you [that’s a lie... I enjoy it], but grammar can be [and often is] key in determining the substance/meaning of a sentence; consider the following two sentences where only one word is changed and that is in capitalization, even the word-ordering is the same:
I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.
I helped my uncle jack off a horse.

The two sentences mean two very different things, don’t they?

Order is key too, consider:
I’m afraid so.
I’m so afraid.

The two sentences mean two very different things, don’t they?

I think I won....
276 posted on 09/10/2010 12:53:42 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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