How do you know it's different? I'd agree if you would say "could be different from..." To assume it often is different is no different from saying is often not different. wc
--- On Sat, 6/27/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: marks > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, June 27, 2009, 12:27 PM > In a message dated 6/26/09 8:01:14 > PM, [email protected] > writes: > > > > I think we need to remind ourselves that what the > words say is one thing, > > what the author intends them to convey is another. we > can't use either to > > justify the other. > > > On the other hand, if you'd accept the following as a > serviceably accurate > description of what you have mind with that first sentence, > I agree with > you: > > "The notion that arises in a reader's mind as he reads > something is often > very different from the notion in the mind of the writer > when he wrote it." > > > > ************** > Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the > > grill. (http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000006)
