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Subject: Re: Debian-free licenses was Re: modifiability of docs: final decision
From: doug jensen ####@####.####
Date: 10 Mar 2005 18:56:22 -0000
Message-Id: <20050310185516.GC25093@debian>

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:18:09PM +0000, Martin Wheeler wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, doug jensen wrote:
> 
> >>>[Rick's] statement infers that no one knows who did it.
> 
>  . . .
> >>  (Probably, you have confused infer with _imply_, but
> >>it makes no difference.)
> >
> >No, I believe I intended what I wrote.
> 
> Doug __
> 
> You can infer whatever you like from this comment; but the implication is 
> you're making a very common grammatico-semantic mistake.
> 
> (Which in my day, would have failed you for:
>    a) any senior post in the Civil Service;
>    b) commissioned officer in the British Army;
>    c) entrance to either Oxford or Cambridge Universities. )

Well, I wish that was the only reason I wouldn't be able to do any of
those.  I suppose you will let me figure out the why, but thanks for the
information.


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