[WAYYY OT] Begs the question

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 14:03 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 21:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > 1) Does this look like an error?
> > > 2) How do I do this?
> > 
> > When viewed as single sentences what you've said makes sense. 
> > 
> > However, when viewed as part of a larger piece of work the sentence
> > "This looks like an error?" may indeed be just fine and dandy.   It
> > would be a shorten form of "This looks like an error to you?" where
> > the
> > "to you" is implied by the broader context of the larger work.
> 
> My examples were short in order to make a point, but of course one of
> the delights of English is the huge variety of expression. There's
> almost nothing that can't be placed in a context where it can be
> construed to mean something (rather like Perl :-)
> 
> poc
> 

Is this subject of the space and time it has taken up on the list? I
would say it is not .

After all as the subject indicates it is: [WAYYY OT] 
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