At 11:05 AM 2/15/2008, Craig Hancock wrote: . . .
>The point all of us are trying to make (patiently, I think) is that 
>context matters.
>    "John was angry. His application had been turned down twice in 
> three weeks."
>   There are very good reasons to mix these structures in a single sentence.

DD: I think we are dealing with the investigation of a receiver's 
tentative understanding of the content of the messages before and 
after the interception of a partial transmission. It is related to 
the study of redundancy in Communication Theory. It is not a trivial matter. 

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