Re: pro- foreign key propaganda?
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 00:25:40 -0300
Message-ID: <4834e7b8$0$4049$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
>> I didn't say that it is not necessarily psychological. I said that it
>> had nothing to do with the desired or intended interpretation. What
>> does psychology have to do with the fact that sometimes you pull the
>> middle beer from the left hand side of a fresh six-pack and sometimes
>> the nearest from the right hand side? Are we supposed to read
>> something into the fact that once in a while you pull the beer
>> furthest away from you on the right-hand side? The beer closest to
>> you should taste just as good as the one furthest away. The choice of
>> which candidate key is to be primary has as much to do with the
>> intended interpretation as the choice of which beer you pull first out
>> of a fresh six-pack has on how good it tastes.
>> ...
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 00:25:40 -0300
Message-ID: <4834e7b8$0$4049$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
paul c wrote:
> Brian Selzer wrote: > ... >
>> I didn't say that it is not necessarily psychological. I said that it
>> had nothing to do with the desired or intended interpretation. What
>> does psychology have to do with the fact that sometimes you pull the
>> middle beer from the left hand side of a fresh six-pack and sometimes
>> the nearest from the right hand side? Are we supposed to read
>> something into the fact that once in a while you pull the beer
>> furthest away from you on the right-hand side? The beer closest to
>> you should taste just as good as the one furthest away. The choice of
>> which candidate key is to be primary has as much to do with the
>> intended interpretation as the choice of which beer you pull first out
>> of a fresh six-pack has on how good it tastes.
>> ...
> > Much as I'm tempted, I'll refrain from calling the first sentence > mystical. Does seem pathologically ambiguous, though. Way beyond my ken.
Double negatives are like that. In essense, he is saying he didn't say anything. Received on Thu May 22 2008 - 05:25:40 CEST