[Sca-cooks] Word usage was Re: remove vs course

[Adele de Maisieres]

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

>On Jun 6, 2006, at 7:41 PM, Terry Decker wrote:
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>>That's just being uncertain about uncertainty.
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>Or "may or may not be unverified..." But when someone says such-and- 
>such is "probably apocryphal", what they almost invariably mean is  
>that the thing _is_ apocryphal. Which, in general, secular usage,  
>simply means it has not been verified.
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Hm.  I tend to use it to mean "probably unverifiable" rater than 
unverified.

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