On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:09:51PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >> [email protected] wrote: >> > I'm on the Free Geek Grant group. One group wants to be able to stop the >> > access to porn on their grant computers. Any suggestions? >> >> I understood your request but it took several readings. > > WT_? > > "One group wants to be able to stop the access to porn on their grant > computers." > > That is a simple declarative sentence. > One only needs to retain four phrases in their short term memory to grok it. > > OK, not as simple as Hemingway. Simplier than Stephanson, Dick, Carroll or > LeGuin. > > May the linguists among us flame me if I'm wrong.
It is an ambiguous sentence. It could be read to mean blocking access to porn that is *already* on those computers, either from people on the computer, or from the outside world, as well as what he likely meant, blocking people using those computers from accessing porn sites out there on the internet. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
