LL-L "Lexicon" 2004.01.22 (08) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Lexicon"

> From: fvanlamoen at planet.nl <fvanlamoen at planet.nl>
> Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2004.01.21 (12) [E]
>
> I believe that Cantor's sentence is taken from his diagonal argument, so
> that the Zahlen are rational numbers, i.e. generally no cardinal numbers.

Sorry, I might have known it was the diagonal argument! I had
assumed he was referring to an infinite set of integers.

> The cofusion may have risen from:
>
> "A lot of people are ... " where probably gramatically more
> correct would be
> "a lot of people is ...".

I don't think it's the same thing - I've worked with software
engineering documentation for a long time and this is the one
grammatical problem that occurs again and again. When asked to
correct it there's often confusion as the writer reads his
sentence over and over again, trying to decide which form of
the verb is right. On the other hand I'd say "a lot of people
is" would be obviously wrong to them. I think it's simply the
proximity of the misapplied noun to the verb which causes the
problem.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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