On a mostly not related note: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 07:52:26AM -0800, Aaron Brady wrote: > According to some rules, these are ungrammatical sentences, due to > plurality disagreement. Ex: > > The Morning Star is ... > The Evening Star is ... > *The Morning Star and The Evening Star is... > *The Morning Star and The Evening Star are... > > Neither of the latter two is correct. (* marks ungrammatical.) As > such, the listener isn't sure what meaning to take.
This statement is false. The latter of the two is grammatically correct. The subject is a compound subject joined by the conjunction "and" which indicates that there are two subjects, and thus the plural form of the verb is necessary and correct. > Identity isn't defined on math objects, only on Python objects; there > is no notion of 'is' in math. This is also false, it even has its own operator (which requires Unicode to display): ≡ Still, the point you're trying to make is right: this stuff is hard to talk about, and the model actually encourages the use of ambiguous or even contradictory explanations. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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