Earl Croasmun -> Bob Klahn wrote:
 EC>>> She did not say that ALL DVDs cannot
 EC>>> be erased.  There do exist DVDs that cannot be erased,
 EC>>> however.

 ~>>  She said DVD's cannot be erased. Not some DVDs, not some
 ~>>  catagory of DVDs.

 EC> That was established some time back.  She did not say
"some" and she did
 EC> not say "all."  You imported the "all."

 ~>>  For a negative to be true in such a case it must be true for all
 ~>>  elements of the set.

 EC> If it is made about "all elements of the set."  You are
spinning your
 EC> wheels in your silly effort to come up with some way to quibble with her
 EC> comment.  And even WITHIN your quibble you are not doing it well, since
 EC> your quibble also requires you to put dissimilar items (pre-pressed DVDs,
 EC> DVD-Rs, and DVD-RWs) into the SAME "set" rather than
different "sets."  As
 EC> Ross pointed out some time back, the usual meaning of "DVD" is the
 EC> pre-pressed and uneraseable disk that one buys or rents with data already
 EC> on it.  DVD-RWs are significantly different from them.  So what you have
 EC> been trumpeting for so long as her making an mistake may have simply been
 EC> the two of you using a different vocabulary.  Which makes all your puffing
 EC> just a semantics game by you.  That is fundamentally different from your
 EC> attempt to defend the placement of Duluth in the wrong state!

Because of nit-picking idiots like Klahn I very, very rarely use the word
"all". I use it when I'm talking about a soap opera that I watch
called All My Children because it is part of the title of the show. I grew
up with 8 older brothers I heard often enough as a child "you said we
could have all your cookies". When in reality the day before I had
offered my cookies to them because I wasn't feeling well. Obviously I
didn't mean "you guys can have all my cookies for ever", but
they'd try and tease me into saying that was what I meant. I use the word
all when I refer to something they all did. They all protected me at
different times. They all checked out boys who wanted to date me from time
to time. By that I mean they didn't all go around asking questions about
one boy; Bob would start, Bill would see about the next one, James was
toughest he'd actually corner a guy and ask his intentions for his
"baby sister" (that used to bother me a lot when I was a kid, but
my brothers who are still living call me that today and it gives me a
sentimentally warm feeling). Funny how time changes some things from bad to
good.

Suffice it to say that I didn't say you can't erase *ALL* DVDs, Bobby is
simply trying to win a point that he never can because he started on a sand
foundation.

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