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From: The Reid on 2 Aug 2006 09:09 Following up to Mxsmanic >> Professionals can demand more than non-professionals. > >So there must be a dividing line between what non-professionals can >demand and what professionals can demand. What is that dividing line? a demarcation line. -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 09:42 David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate writes: > What is it that you each again? English. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 09:51 Dave Frightens Me writes: > Why? More is more than less, and is preferred. That's all that > matters. OK. I make more than a euro at what I do, therefore I'm a professional. After all, a euro is more than half a euro. > Show me where I indicated that. As soon as you assert that there are two categories, professional and non-professional, you imply some sort of identifiable distinction between them. If you can't describe the distinction, then your division into categories has no meaning. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 09:51 Dave Frightens Me writes: > On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:36:25 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > >Dave Frightens Me writes: > > > >> You asked "What does that make > >> [Doctors without Borders]?". That can only be read as the > >> organisation. > > > >Then why do the British refer to organizations with plural forms of > >verbs? > > You should know the reason, if you teach the language. Yes. They do it because they are thinking of people within the organization. Thus, Doctors without Borders can indeed be read as something other than the organization, contrary to your assertion. QED. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Gorazd Bozic on 2 Aug 2006 09:52
Tchiowa wrote: > Gorazd Bozic wrote: >> Or did you mean to say that Communism = Socialism? > > Pretty much, yes. Communism is one form of Socialism. Read Marx. 8-> Oh, I have. I do admit though it was some time ago. > Communism is not much more than militarily enforced Socialism. That's definitely not what we were taught back then. I'd fail a marxism class with a statement like that, that I'm certain. Gorazd |