 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - 1902 - 422 lapas
...knockdown argument for you!' " "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,' " Alice objected. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to meanneither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words... | |
 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - 1905 - 330 lapas
...knockdown argument for you!' " "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,' " Alice objected. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what 1 choose it to mean neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1980 - 790 lapas
...proffered interpretation. This recalls Lewis Carroll's classic advice on the construction of language: " 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what / choose it to mean neither more nor less.' " Through the Looking Glass, in The Complete Works... | |
 | 1914 - 540 lapas
...lighten a story as factual as a vice report but without much success. HKIEFS ox NEW BOOKS. * ' When / use a -word, ' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less. ' ' ' This citation from a well-known authority might... | |
 | 1916 - 204 lapas
...by 'glory,' " Alice said. "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,' " Alice objected. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to meanneither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words... | |
 | 1918 - 954 lapas
...knockdown argument for you!" 'But "glory" does n't mean "a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected. 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather...to mean neither more nor less.' 'The question is,'said Alice,'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' ' 'The question is,' said... | |
 | J. I. Packer - 1958 - 196 lapas
...Christians in the world to whom they apply. CHAPTER II WHAT IS 'FUNDAMENTALISM'? ' When I use a ward? Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less.' LEWIS CARROLL IN this chapter we shall look into the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1961 - 862 lapas
...F.2d 572, at 574-580 (dissent) (1959). This is reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's classic utterance : "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what / choose it to mean neither more nor less." stitutes a form of "shorthand" language to facilitate... | |
 | Shaul Magid - 2002 - 320 lapas
...disparities of naming through language. Reflections on a Hermeneutical Theory in Likkutei MoHaRan Shaul Magtd "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather...mean neither more nor less." "The question is" asked Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is" said Humpty... | |
 | Joshua Stein - 2001 - 322 lapas
...D Summarize; D Avoid formulas; and D Stop. 7 How To Use Defined Terms To Make Documents Work Better "When I use a word, " Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less. "1 §7.01 INTRODUCTION When you write a legal document,... | |
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When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less."3 "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things. 
