Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Quotation of the Day

[J]ust because the thing I saw wasn't there doesn't mean there wasn't something there that I didn't see.

Ann Althouse


That's some fine legal reasoning. I think Ann's definitely shown that she can see the law library from her house.

[h/t to Jon Swift]

7 comments:

  1. That explains so goddamn much about her.

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  2. Yesterday upon the stair
    I saw a man who wasn't there.

    He wasn't there again today.
    Oh how I wish he'd go away.

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  3. "There wasn't something there i didn't see."

    Does that work as a sentence, sorry, me head never functions well with double negatives, but can that actually be a logical sentence even?
    Ok then, if it can not stand by itself as a logical sentence (maybe)- then, it's like contingency upon the first bit.
    so u got to fix them together- which is hard- cos the second bit still doesn't make much sense.
    I mean- if there wasn't anything there- how could u see it?

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  4. mm, see, it's like 'spoken english' in what looks like a literary english sentence maybe, if u think of it as 'spoken english' it's easy to understand- most people however if they got education will be thrown- why- cos just they are trying to figure out the meaning of something- when ure brain is telling it should be anything- cos it's a negative sentence, ure trying to figure out what's the significance of something used when it ought to be anything- in fact, maybe there is no significance- except that it's use of spoken english when u don't expect it.

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  5. Jaz: It's actually a triple negative, but don't worry too much about trying to parse it. Ann Althouse is an idiot and the quotation is stupid.

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  6. yes larry, i gone to her blog site and looked at all her stuff. she's a downclass.

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  7. Isn't that a quadruple negative? Just counting the 4 "n'ts.

    I would imagine (and perhaps it is just a flight of fancy) that someone would have commented on her blog that actual high-tech in-ear receivers are much less visible than "...a crescent of clear plastic.", she mentions in comment #6.

    Ooh, would that be an Islamic crescent!?

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