Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal: Cheerleaders

[ID Scott <Iain.Scott.01@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Glotmorf wrote:

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> "or" and "not" don't tend to work well together.  In this case, if a player is not a Color Commentator, he satisfies the requirement, whether or not he's a Football player; if he's not a Football player, he satisfies the requirement, whether or not he's a Color Commentator.  You want him to be both not a Football player "and" not a Color Commentator.
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> 						Glotmorf
Well, they work fine together, it just interpretaion in normal english
useage which is screwy. Rewording the senence to say "neither a football
player nor a coulor comentator is eligable" (i.e. not (A or B)) is
probably what the proposal meant to say. 

(note, if anyone cares, that "not (A or B)" == "not A" and "not B")

cheers,
Iain