On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 21:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > 1) Does this look like an error? > > 2) How do I do this? > > When viewed as single sentences what you've said makes sense. > > However, when viewed as part of a larger piece of work the sentence > "This looks like an error?" may indeed be just fine and dandy. It > would be a shorten form of "This looks like an error to you?" where > the > "to you" is implied by the broader context of the larger work.
My examples were short in order to make a point, but of course one of the delights of English is the huge variety of expression. There's almost nothing that can't be placed in a context where it can be construed to mean something (rather like Perl :-) poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
