Ian Kelly wrote:
>also argue thet "I make myself active" is closer in meaning to "I
>become active" than to "I flip my activity to active."
I find that a strange assertion. "I become active" says nothing about
the means by which one becomes active, whereas both of the others are
explicit that one
On 8/17/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ian Kelly wrote:
> >So "I become active" will no longer be an acceptable variant of "I
> >flip my activity to active"?
>
> I think it would reasonably imply that you are flipping your activity.
> To say "I make myself active" would be a more direct sy
Ian Kelly wrote:
>So "I become active" will no longer be an acceptable variant of "I
>flip my activity to active"?
I think it would reasonably imply that you are flipping your activity.
To say "I make myself active" would be a more direct synonym of "I
flip my activity to active", and it's clearer
or "I'm flip'in active"?
Quoting Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 8/17/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To "flip" an instance of a switch to a particular value is to
make that switch come to have that value (regardless of what the
switch's value was previously). To "be
On 8/17/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To "flip" an instance of a switch to a particular value is to
> make that switch come to have that value (regardless of what the
> switch's value was previously). To "become X", where X is a
> possible value of exactly one of
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