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  1. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball0888 /lectures /logic

  2. 22 November, 1963 Nightmare on Elm Street

  3. ?

  4. What the fuck?

  5. I mean, er.. what the fucking fuck?

  6. We are young men and women of high spirit and noble ideals. We are philosophers, interested in the semantics of English ‘if’. What in God’s name are we doing in this dreadful place?

  7. Oswald Sentences • [A] If Oswald didn’t shoot Kennedy, then somebody else did. • [B] If Oswald doesn’t shoot Kennedy, then somebody else will. • [C] If Oswald hadn’t shot Kennedy, then somebody else would have.

  8. The scientific study of: English Grammar

  9. MissAnneWiddecombe

  10. Miss Anne Widdecombe at the Conservative Party Conference

  11. Miss Anne Widdecombe with her first boyfriend

  12. Miss Anne Widdecombe being prepared for Room 101

  13. "Schoolchildren are no longer drilled in the proper use of the infinitive. They are no longer trained in the correct deployment of the subjunctive mood. Nor have they been schooled to identify the vast array of English tenses - the perfect, the imperfect, the pluperfect, the future perfect...."

  14. A Counterblast • English has NO infinitive • English has NO moods – neither indicative nor subjunctive nor any other • English has but TWO tenses – present and past

  15. " Space... the final frontier ... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, toboldlygowhere no man has gone before...".

  16. toboldlygo

  17. boldlytogo

  18. togo boldly

  19. toboldlygo

  20. M • I • S • S

  21. Madness! • Ignorance! • Stupidity! • Snobbery!

  22. ire audacter • aller courageusement • avanzare con coraggio • andar intrépidamente • sattwena gantum • tapfer zu gehen

  23. Latin: verbstem + infinitive ending One word

  24. English: Particle (‘to’) + verbbase Two separate words

  25. Ambiguity

  26. We must have the worst JCR food in Oxford

  27. That dart might have landed in baby’s eye

  28. If she misses the last bus, the Countess will walk

  29. If she missed the last bus, the Countess would walk

  30. Sentencevs.Message

  31. Truth is not a property of Sentences

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