Conditional imperfection

[John Doe]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>wrote:

> Technical sense? This was my first inkling that there was more than
>     one sense!
>

I agree. When would anyone say "if and only if" in random conversation,
anyway? It sounds pretentious.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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