White Protestants and Catholics don’t frequently attend religious services
Breaking news from the Potomac Primaries:
White Protestants and Catholics backed Mrs. Clinton, but Mr. Obama was strongly supported by voters who frequently attend religious services.
Seeing as backing Mrs. Clinton and supporting Mr. Obama are, in terms of votes, mutually exclusive, this sentence entails that white Protestants and Catholics (the majority of ) are not a part of “voters who frequently attend religious services”, as is demonstrated by the infelicity of the following sentence:
“Group A did A, and Group B did not do A — but Group A is part of Group B.”
Well, that just settles it then.
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February 13th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
ラブ。
It’s probably a pattern. The Maroon says people who frequently anthropomorphize, talk to themselves, and have religious/spiritual beliefs (=me) are lonely. Must be really difficult to write about third parties to whom you have no connection.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:53 am
I wasn’t sure where in your blog to post this, but as a former Taiwan ETA-er I just wanted to say that I’m enjoying your blog and missing the scenery and grandeur of Taiwan quite a bit! Keep the great photos and posts coming.
Best,
Josh Overcast