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Date Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:53:56 -0500
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:56:11 GMT, alister
<alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> declaimed the following:

>On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:54:55 +0000, alister wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:44:53 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2014-11-10, David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> My crystal ball is currently in for repair and is not expected back
>>>>> in the foreseeable future.
>>>>
>>>> Without a crystal ball, this prediction might be not well founded.
>>> 
>>> That isn't a prediction.  It's an explicit statement of no prediction.
>>> He said that it is "not expected back" rather than "expected not to be
>>> back".  They're two different things.  The former asserts a _lack_ of
>>> expection/prediction.  The latter asserts an expectation/prediction.
>> 
>> It was only a a joke maybe it was a bit to subtle
>
>I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition (Damn wish Id though of that 
>before sending the last post)

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A syntax question Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2014-11-10 12:07 +0100
  Re: A syntax question alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-11-10 11:23 +0000
    Re: A syntax question David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com> - 2014-11-10 12:31 +0100
      Re: A syntax question Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-11-10 14:44 +0000
        Re: A syntax question alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-11-10 14:54 +0000
          Re: A syntax question alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-11-10 14:56 +0000
            Re: A syntax question Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-11-10 19:53 -0500
              Re: A syntax question alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-11-11 09:04 +0000
          Re: A syntax question Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-11-10 16:11 +0000
            Re: A syntax question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-11 03:18 +1100
              Re: A syntax question Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-11-10 14:48 -0500
    Re: A syntax question Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-11-10 20:08 +0000
    Re: A syntax question Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-10 14:29 -0600
  Re: A syntax question Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2014-11-10 12:39 +0100
  Re: A syntax question Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-11-10 09:35 -0500
  Re: A syntax question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-11 01:54 +1100
  Re: A syntax question Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-11-10 16:10 +0100
  Re: A syntax question Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-11-10 10:27 -0500

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