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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