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From: marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Marc `Play Ball!' Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Syntax vs Semantics (silliness!)
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Date: 11 Apr 89 15:47:02 GMT
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>I'm not even real sure of the *informal* English distinction between 
>"syntax" and "semantics". 
>
>How do you linguistics people use these words?

One of my pet peeves is when two people are arguing over some fine distinction
is the the exact meaning of a word, and one will exclaim, "That's just
semantics".  I always wondered what it is that this person thinks is more
high-level than semantics, and what he would call it.