Interesting discussion to be having.
Mr. Owens, whom you met briefly on your (relatively) recent trip to Omaha,
and I were just having a similar discussion. We thought a good name for a
mime bar might be the Mute Point.
rish
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:59 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Hot Button - English pedantry (was: cfmail suddenly not
working...very wierd
> But the error message infers that the login is not being accepted.
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*implies*
You might *infer* from the error message that the login is not being
accepted.
The error message might well *imply* that the login is not being accepted.
Sorry, but my wife & I were just bemoaning the fact that many people
out there don't know the difference between affect / effect, mute /
moot, and infer / imply and I swore to her that computer people get
infer / imply right most of the time...
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