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Eric wrote:
> > In my mind that's implied, otherwise one would write "Moreover, the
> > source must be a memory bitmap or a sub-bitmap." instead of
> > "Moreover, the source must be a memory bitmap or sub-bitmap."
This is a little ambiguous, especially if read at speed.
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 18:41, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> In German, you'd need an extra "-" before sub-bitmap to specify it is
> connected to a previous expression ("a memory-bitmap or -sub-bitmap")
> - so that's probably why it sounded strange to me when I read it
> yesterday.
I think the equivalent English construction would be to add a final word
"thereof" to the sentence.
Bye for now,
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Laurence Withers, lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx
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