Re: Stats Gone Wild! Plus Triple-Play Bonus

"Paul L. Madarasz" <madplmad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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 Fri, 16 May 2008 10:41:25 -0700 (PDT), Snidely
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> wrote, perhaps among other things:

>On May 16, 6:58 am, Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin+use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>wrote:
>> M C Hamster (davol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
>> >>But then don't you have to explicitly say "hence from then"?
>> >>Which seems ridiculously baroque, even for me.
>>
>> > No.  Here's the definition of "hence", from M-W Online:
>>
>> > 1: from this place : away
>> > "This place", in my original sentence,  represents the time the
>> > column was written, not the present.  It does not need to refer to
>> > the present, only some place that I have designated as the place
>> > from which I am dating the time.
>
>
>Opus, I'm buying it even less than you are, because here the Hamster
>is citing a *spatial* definition and applying it to a time dimension.
>
>Pffftttt.
>
>/dps

Using spatial terms for tem****al usage seems to be pretty prevalent.
If I think longer about it, I'll probably come up with an example.
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I think we are light-years away from being able to do that...
   ...Roy