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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:00 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: How to motivate ‘unless’ = ‘if not’, with etymology?
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Re: How to motivate ‘unless’ = ‘if not’, with etymology?
My students still reckon Lande’s 2 motivations for ‘unless’ = ‘if not’ (below) too abstract, formalistic! Thus I need a 3rd simpler, motivation with merely etymology . But I never studied linguistics! How do I 1. use these etymology quotations, to motivate ‘unless’ = ‘if not’? 2. teach why “less th...