(November 28, 2012 at 3:52 pm)John V Wrote:(November 28, 2012 at 3:10 pm)apophenia Wrote: Well, the sentence did contain an element of amphiboly, but the charitable reading would have been that he did not mean what you wrote, John.OK, what did he mean? I admittedly am being a bit of a smart-ass, because I find go read it yourself, which seems to be the intent, to be pretty pointless on a discussion board.
So, you'd like him to read it for you, so that you both can discuss something that only one of you has read?
I might have been less charitable in my response.