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Re^4: A "but" operator.by Velaki (Chaplain) |
on Sep 28, 2004 at 02:37 UTC ( [id://394442]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Since "A but B" is really a conjunctive inversion, discursively it should be equivalent to "A and not B".
And since "A and not B" is equivalent to "not (if A then B)", or in other words, "not (B if A)", couldn't this be said thusly, to be perly, "B unless A"? Thoughts?-v
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