2008/12/12 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>:
>>> Next, let's say that if A-B and B-C are connected, then A-C
>>> are too.
>>
>> No. That's only generally true for equality relations.
>>
>> Equivalence relations are not equality relations.
>
> Actually, transitivity is a requirement for an equivalence relation.
> (In addition to symmetry (A~B => B~A) and reflexivity (A~A for all
> A).)

Ok, I used the wrong phrase, but it's still very much the case that
the interlanguage relationship definitely isn't transitive, and he's
assuming it is.
-- 
-Ian Woollard

We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
imperfect world would be much better.

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