Thus Rui Miguel Silva Seabra  spake on Tue, 4 Sep 2007

18:38:09 +0100:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:37:00AM -0500, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:

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> > On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:49, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:

> > >On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:40:53PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:

> > >> > Most dictionaries I had at my hand define alternative as

> > >> > choices. You can get http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alternative

> > >>

> > >> Wow.  Let's all go practice law with a dictionary.

> > >

> > >? But you mentioned dictionaries first...

> >

> > You do realize that when it comes to legal documents, such as

> > licenses, that general-purpose dictionaries are inadequate, right?

> > If you want to look up legal terms, you need a law dictionary.

> >

> > I think that if one is ignorant enough of law that one needs to

> > consult a legal dictionary for more than one or two terms in order

> > to understand a document, then perhaps it would be best to either

> > do a lot of studying to become more knowledgeable, or find someone

> > with more legal training to interpret the document. As a layperson

> > with little in-depth knowledge of legal code, that's how i see

> > things anyway.

>

> I think that if *alternative* means both at the same time in any

> reputable dictionary (legal or not),

Show those. Besides this, it is WRONG.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alternative
Hence the meaning of ALTERNATIVE: NOT all at the same time. Maybe you

need a Heisenberg experience to understand?
> then I'm on a parallel reality

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> for sure.

Obviously, yes.
> Other than that, you're just being pretentious.
Please, let this thread die.
Timo