Damian Conway wrote:
> Micheal G. Schwern wrote:
>
> > It also doesn't convey anything about "evaluate the left
> > hand side, ignore the results and evaluate the right".
>
> I think that's exactly what it conveys:
>
> The suspect drank half a dozen double whiskys then drove
> into a lake.
>
> Sounds *exactly* like ignoring the results of the left hand
> side to me. ;-)
Not to be a wet-blanket grammar nazi, but the sentence you give as an
example isn't proper English. "Then" is an adverb,* not a conjugation.
The suspect drank half a dozen double whiskeys;
then he drove into a lake.
The suspect drank half a dozen double whiskeys
and then drove into a lake.
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* - It's also a sometimes a noun ("live has been hard since then") and
rarely an adjective ("the then president").
