From: ichbiah@twsolutions.com (Jean D. Ichbiah)
Subject: Re: DEWAR (Spelled correctly!), Chill out
Date: 1998/02/05
Date: 1998-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34d9d4a2.2972033@news.tiac.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.886511817@merv
On 3 Feb 1998 08:17:37 -0500, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
wrote:
> Jean said
>
> <<I cannot remember a single strenuous argument with Robert in
> which he did not end up agreeing with me!
> >>
>
> Gosh that's odd, I have exactly the same impression :-)
We, language lawyers, tend to be very precise with
the way we express ourselves. Only a green beginner
would fail to see that
"he ended up agreeing with me"
is miles away from either of
"he ended up agreeing with my initial viewpoint"
"I ended up agreeing with his initial viewpoint"
The meaning is very precise and for those who need
language commentaries it really means that the strenuous
discussion led to a viewpoint that was agreeable to both.
Jean Ichbiah
Textware Solutions
ichbiah@twsolutions.com
http://www.twsolutions.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-05 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <34C7BA3D.4C41@cs.umd.edu>
1998-01-22 0:00 ` DEWAR (Spelled correctly!), Chill out Robert Dewar
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-05 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah [this message]
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-01-25 0:00 Sam Harbaugh, Palm Bay, Florida
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox