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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: English decaying
Message-ID: <1188@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 01:40:30 EST
Article-I.D.: jhunix.1188
Posted: Thu Nov 14 01:40:30 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Nov-85 20:34:43 EST
References: <1427@cae780.UUCP> <2472@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr.
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In article <2472@sunybcs.UUCP> colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>> Am I getting more sensitive, or is the English language, as used,
>> becoming less logical?
>> On all airlines now, for example, the landing message is always "We
>> would like to welcome you to ...".  Well then, why don't they DO it?
>> Isn't "We would like to welcome you to New York" different from
>> "Welcome to New York"?  Don't you expect the first to continue with
>> "but, unfortunately, we landed in <some other city> ..."?
>The prelude gives your ears time to get used to the sound of the speaker.
>Col. G. L. Sicherman

I got burned once posting about English, but here goes again... 

"Isn't that a chrysanthemum"
"Is that a chrysanthemum"
are two sentences that at first glance seem to mean the opposite, but
they don't. Perhaps this is similar.
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