conditional Inuit

[Neal Whitman]

A conditional and its inverse are not logically equivalent.

Neal

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>
>> Yet another tortured twist on the tired snowclone:
>>
>> short URL: http://goo.gl/EKVs8
>> http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/12/jessica-chastain-film-person-of-the-year-narrative.html
>>> That outrage lasts pretty much the whole film, which presented a
>>> special challenge to Chastain. If it�s true that the Eskimos have
>>> hundreds of words for snow, she has to have had at least a hundred
>>> different worried, puzzled, what-the-hell-is-going-on expressions for
>>> this film, each building on the last. I ask if she actually had to
>>> rehearse in front of a mirror to differentiate them all.
>>
>> So. let me get this straight--if it is /not/ true that Eskimos have
>> hundreds of words for snow, then Jessica Chastain /may not have/ "at
>> least a hundred different worried, puzzled, what-the-hell-is-going-on
>> expressions". Good to know.

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