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[Victor Steinbok]

There is no doubt that this was NOT a question. It was an aggressive
command.

     VS-)

> At 10:21 AM -0500 2/6/11, Neal Whitman wrote:
>> Or maybe it was a question: "don't you differentiate...?"
>>
>> Neal
> That certainly makes sense in principle (an instance of "Don't you
> X?" = 'you should X'), but in the context of the false start ("Don't
> you dare..."), I took this to be an imperative ("Don't you X!" = 'you
> shouldn't X'), as the exclamation point in Victor's transcription
> suggests.
>
> LH

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