User talk:PS4FA
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Hey man, I just want to say for the edits you've done on Neon Genesis Evangelion, you RULE! -- The T
Hi, sorry if I sounded a bit bullish. There was quite a row over the Irish potato famine some months ago that produced a rather nasty edit war. When a new user visits the talk page my heart sinks at the thought that it is one of the gang of people (mostly anarchists or Irish -American republican sympathisers) who raided the page the last time and produced WWIII. (One of them started writing bizarre anarchist poetry about it, and telling Maverick149 (one of wiki's best users) off for getting involved in the debate. Another started telling me how I was a Tory, a British apologist, etc. It was a weird experience. So I am wary of visitors on that talk page in case it is the poetry-writing anarchist, who couldn't write a coherent sentence in english but lectured everyone about "brilliant prose"!!! In any case, sorry if I sounded a little heavy. Which leads me to the main message:
Welcome to wikipedia! wikilove FearÉIREANN 01:37 11 Jun 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Nor/Or
In regards to this: This is an extremely minor point, borderline negligible, but I just wanted to point out that, at least according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, both "not... or" and "not... nor" are considered correct when used with adjective phrases, though the former is indeed more common and natural sounding. I just figured using the word "nor" eliminates the miniscule trace of ambiguity introduced by using "or", as a really clueless reader could perhaps potentially interpret the phrase with "or" as "she is not homicidal or is sadistic". I.e. "not x nor y" clearly means "(!x) && (!y)", whereas "not x or y" could be interpreted as either "!(x || y)" or "(!x) || y". But at least in the particular example in the Elfen Lied article, the difference really isn't significant, so I'll leave it as you preferred. --164.76.162.246 6 July 2005 18:35 (UTC)
