Cheerskep wrote: > I'll bet the notion you have when you say or hear > 'expression' varies a good deal. So why, if you don't describe your notion with a > given usage, would you ever expect any reader to know what's on your mind?
1. I don't have any clear notion of what you are asking me. 2. I didn't say "expression," which has developed a wide range of denoted and connoted meanings for people--but rather I said "the way we express time" and "methods to express time." This is a common phrase that refers to the fact that every language has a conventionalized way to convey the time period related to the rest of the utterance. 3. Why don't you just offer your alternate notion? Your pseudo-Socratic inquiry loses its charm after a while. If you have any serious dispute with what I wrote, then present that rather than falling back on the pedant's "But what do you mean?" gambit. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
