okay, sorry to be a pedant. this will be the last post on this OT thread from me.
At 4:27 PM -0500 6/3/02, Matthew C. Weigel wrote: >On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 03:41 p, dave sag wrote: > >>nice try but quines make sense. your response makes no sense. > >He made a small mistake: what he meant was... > >"Will be rejected when approval is asked" will be rejected when approval >is asked. way off the mark i'm afraid Matthew as from what i can gather the quoted part of a quine should make sense on its own. and for what it's worth "makes no sense on its own," makes no sense on its own. >"Is OK as long as you don't want our stamp of approval" is OK as long as >you don't want our stamp of approval. > >It's a quine, it's a valid English sentence, and it expresses the >opinions of a lot of the people who have commented[1]. It may be valid English but once again it's not really a quine as the semantics are garbage. also the quoted part does not need the word 'Is'. you are stretching the point so much it has broken. dave -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
