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<font size=3>At 3/29/2014 07:55 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Some formal philosophers are
fond of the "such that" construction, which still involves a
resumptive pronoun (as the "it" in the sentence below is
called):<br><br>
"…such that no one even knows why it
exists".</font></blockquote><br>
<font size=3>[or any other weird computer ding-dong font]
</font>"for <font size=3>which no one knows even why it
exists."?<br><br>
While I probably wouldn't say "such that", I'd probably accept
it.<br><br>
</font>Joel<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Otherwise you'd
need more radical surgery:<br><br>
"…or any other weird computer…font whose existence no one can even
explain", or whatever<br><br>
The "such that" construction is available for all sorts of
cases where the normal relative clause strategy (with gaps in place of
pronouns) is unavailable:<br><br>
"the woman such that I went to school with a guy whose younger
brother married and later got divorced from her"<br>
"the civil servant such that the governor's staff denied the claim
that he was acting under official orders when he closed the
bridge"<br><br>
But it's not exactly English.<br><br>
LH<br><br>
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On Mar 29, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:<br><br>
> Is this sentence strange?<br>
><br>
> "The notes are all computer-printed, but it's a custom font,
not Wingdings or Dingbats or any other weird computer ding-dong font that
no one knows even why it exists." (Cameron Edmondson, the time
counter is goofy, so I can't give a time stamp)<br>
><br>
> The "it" next to the end seems odd, but I'm having trouble
figuring out how else to construct the clause without replacing
"that" with "and."<br>
><br>
> Found at
<a href="https://screen.yahoo.com/broken-news-daily/secret-codes-hidden-college-library-233507140.html" eudora="autourl">
https://screen.yahoo.com/broken-news-daily/secret-codes-hidden-college-library-233507140.html</a>
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><br>
> Benjamin Barrett<br>
> Formerly of Seattle, WA<br>
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https://sites.google.com/site/aynuitak1/videos</a><br>
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