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    #11
    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    And plenty don't.
    So if plenty do and plenty don't, it is a false dichotomy.

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      #12
      Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
      So if plenty do and plenty don't, it is a false dichotomy.
      Not necessarily, plenty /= most or a majority, just that there is enough to satisfy a need, be it physical or opinion. Both guilty of using a noun where a comparative adjective would be more appropriate.
      But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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        #13
        Originally posted by Mordac View Post


        “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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          #14
          Originally posted by Gibbon View Post
          Not necessarily, plenty /= most or a majority, just that there is enough to satisfy a need, be it physical or opinion. Both guilty of using a noun where a comparative adjective would be more appropriate.
          Plenty defines the number at least >0, so it is a false dichotomy. 'Plenty' in this context is a pronoun, not a noun, and is correct and sufficient to define a false dichotomy.

          Regrettably, you are displaying a lack of education. It is a pity nobody took the trouble to teach you some Latin.

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            #15
            Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
            Plenty defines the number at least >0, so it is a false dichotomy. 'Plenty' in this context is a pronoun, not a noun, and is correct and sufficient to define a false dichotomy.

            Regrettably, you are displaying a lack of education. It is a pity nobody took the trouble to teach you some Latin.
            To be fair, I thought he was doing OK, for an ape...you could maybe chuck him a banana ffs...
            His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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              #16
              Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
              Plenty defines the number at least >0, so it is a false dichotomy. 'Plenty' in this context is a pronoun, not a noun, and is correct and sufficient to define a false dichotomy.

              Regrettably, you are displaying a lack of education. It is a pity nobody took the trouble to teach you some Latin.
              Show me that proof. Plenty is not a mathematical function. Can you imagine a requirement: 'give the engine plenty of fuel'.

              Nice jibe on the Latin, are you published? I am, perhaps we could exchange papers, mine's on Horace odes 3.14.
              But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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                #17
                Originally posted by Gibbon View Post
                Show me that proof. Plenty is not a mathematical function. Can you imagine a requirement: 'give the engine plenty of fuel'.
                You mean like the requirements plenty of us get from business users until we nail them down?


                Originally posted by Gibbon View Post
                Nice jibe on the Latin, are you published? I am, perhaps we could exchange papers, mine's on Horace odes 3.14.


                Not sure why NLyUK brought up Latin may have well have brought up philosophy.
                "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Gibbon View Post
                  Show me that proof. Plenty is not a mathematical function. Can you imagine a requirement: 'give the engine plenty of fuel'.

                  Nice jibe on the Latin, are you published? I am, perhaps we could exchange papers, mine's on Horace odes 3.14.
                  Apologies. I just assumed you were uneducated from your poor grasp of grammar. Plenty is a pronoun in the context used. It could stand for either countable countable nouns.

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                    #19
                    some bloke phoned in to LBC and was saying we should have gone there, arrested her and try to rehabilitate her. I was visualising Rimmer



                    It would have been funny if wasn't so serious.

                    She wanted to been seen as a soldier she got to die as one. Good riddance. Drones may well be the nuclear alternative for terrorists, making sure they just don't bother, however we do need to keep an eye on them.
                    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by vetran View Post
                      some bloke phoned in to LBC and was saying we should have gone there, arrested her and try to rehabilitate her.
                      That's cos she was a blonde haired blue eyed woman who obviously can't be evil.

                      Anyone who tried to arrest her would be dead.

                      A terrorist is a terrorist regardless of what they look like.
                      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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