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To: KrisKrinkle
Like I keep telling you, he can't just ban anything he wants.

I'm trying to get through to you that your interpretation of "anything he wants" is asinine. Did you really think I meant he could ban gravity? Think about it.

474 posted on 02/26/2006 4:22:59 PM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Shalom Israel

"Did you really think I meant he could ban gravity?"

Certainly not. I started out writing about banning life and liberty. You're the one who went off sideways with gravity and angels and ghosts and such.

"I'm trying to get through to you that your interpretation of 'anything he wants'..."

What interpretation? The words seem simple and clear:

anyhing: A thing of any kind.

he: the property owner

wants: desires greatly

So "he can ban anything he wants (to ban)" stated another way is "the property owner can ban a thing of any kind the property owner desires greatly (to ban)." "To ban" is assumed to follow "wants" and "desires greatly" in both cases. (There's a term for that but it slips my mind at the moment.)

Given the context I don't see room for interpretation.

"Think about it."

I'm glad you brought that subject up again.

You ought to consider putting a little more thought into your posts. It can be a great source of satisfaction but it too often degrades quality to pound on the keys and quickly send off that riposte, if that's what you're doing. Whatever you're doing would be better done with more thought. That way the reader (me or the lurkers) doesn't have to sort through the chaff looking for grains of wheat that turn out to not be there.

I only offer my comments because, as I wrote above, you're the one who brought the subject up.


479 posted on 02/26/2006 8:49:47 PM PST by KrisKrinkle
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