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On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:12:35 +0100, wrote: > On 2017-04-17 18:30:20 +0000, "James Wilkinson Sword" > <imvalid@somewear.com> said: > >> On Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:37:55 +0100, Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> wrote: >> >>> On 4/13/2017 5:44 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: >>>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 21:19:38 +0100, wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 2017-04-11 20:01:14 +0000, "James Wilkinson Sword" >>>>> <imvalid@somewear.com> said: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:43:24 +0100, Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 04/10/2017 02:59 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> [snip] >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Some people do confuse >>>>>>>>> colors with WORDS for colors. Why would they? Those things are very >>>>>>>>> different. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Eh? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Common but strange, not being able to tell the difference between a >>>>>>> WORD >>>>>>> and the thing it represents. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> One example I use is "brick". Here's 2 things. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1. An object about 2x4x8 (or 3x3x9) inches in size and made of about 4 >>>>>>> pounds of hardened clay. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 2. A word. Something with no physical existence, but exists only in >>>>>>> people's imaginations. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Both are called "brick". If someone's throwing things, do you care >>>>>>> which >>>>>>> you get hit with? >>>>>> >>>>>> I've never heard of anyone confusing a word with a thing. Give me a >>>>>> link showing where this happened. >>>>> >>>>> Yugo and car. >>>> >>>> Huh? >>>> >>> >>> Whoosh. >> >> Yugo and car are both words and things. > > There were all sorts of folks confusing Yugos with cars, just because > the Yugo had four wheels and an excuse for a motor. It was an illusion > of a car. Same goes for Lada, Skoda, Rover. -- Amanpreet was overheard at the hospital angrily say, "My wife just delivered twins!!!" A passerby said, "So? You should be happy about that. Why are you so angry?" "I want to know who the son of a bitch is that's the father of the second kid!"
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