"Q: "show me out [something]" = show to me?

[Joel S. Berson]

Or "refute"?

Joel

At 2/8/2008 12:13 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>I use "disconfirm".
>
>On Feb 8, 2008 11:25 AM, Damien Hall <halldj at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> > [...]
>
>
>
> >
> > (There's a French phrase which would have come in very useful to me a
> > couple of
> > times in this post:  *confirmer ou infirmer*, where *confirmer* =
> > 'confirm' and
> > *infirmer* is the opposite.  Is there an English equivalent for that?
> >  'Confirm
> > or deny' isn't it, because 'deny' is used of an allegation, not of a
> > supposition, I don't think, whereas *infirmer* is used specifically of a
> > supposition in this phrase - though maybe for allegations in other
> > contexts.)
> >
>
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>Mark Mandel
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