Excellent thread, maybe one of the best. Should be set as an example as to how contentious subjects can be debated by rational folks. Nickhere, I am duly impressed with your reasoning.

Amos, I understood your response, but I note that you didn't address the continuum aspects of Nickhere's argument, which is why, I presume, he referred you back to his posts.

Now, I am off to find a big enough piece of walnut to make a beautifully engraved wall plaque with the following inlaid in veneer:

It does NOT imply any such thing...it only shows that I did not write a long enough compound/complex sentence to include & exclude every possible contingency that you could possibly imagine by applying brute force to the edges of my linguistic endeavors. Bill D. 27 Aug 07 - 10:55 AM