The notion that "Of course noon is PM" is wholly inadmissible, indeed obscene, to anyone for whom the equivalence 'post meridiem' = 'after noon' is alive and immediate.
There is, I am sure, a generational difference here. With Quine, I also find the use of data in the singular obscene. Worry not, however! Those of us who do will all be dead soon. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
