[X4U] Consumer Reports-Word use

[Neil]

on 9/9/05 3:20 PM, keith_w wrote:

> Okay, I can see the amgiguity built into the way the sentence is
> constructed.
> The words "Linux has great security, but not MS Office," seems to imply
> that MS Office doesen't offer great security...
> Instead, according to you, he was saying LInux doesn't have access to MS
> Office, while the Mac does have access to it...
> 
> Okay. Sometimes one feels like a world class pedant, but English is
> capable of so many permuatations, if you really want to be understood
> without any possible ambiguity, you have to sometimes add words and
> phrases that makes it sound awkward!

Right, sorry about that.  I didn't realize the ambiguity until you asked the
question.  Randy knew what I meant, even though I wasn't clear (and perhaps
not 100% accurate either).