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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>
> la xod cusku di'e
>
> > > I certainly won't claim that my {lo'e nanmu} is "the average man".
> > > It is "men in general".
> >
> >What's the difference? Aren't their properties identical?
>
> Maybe sometimes they are, English uses those expressions
> in different ways. I meant things like "the average couple
> has 1.5 children" but couples in general don't have 1.5
> children. In general they have an integer number of
> children including possibly zero. The average couple
> does not have zero children, but couples in general
> can have zero children.
Ah ha! "average" = statistical median, "in general" = statistical mode.
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Henry McCullers, an affable Plano, TX-area anti-Semite, praised the
Jewish people Monday for doing "a bang-up job" running the media.
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they're not reporting on the Jewish stranglehold on world finance,
but, hey, that's understandable."