Posted by Michelle Steiner on 11/16/54 11:36

In article <slrndro4i9.96a.nospam@debian.dns2go.com>,
Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote:

> >> Claiming to have lived without a car all one's life would mean
> >> they have not used a car, at all, in their life.
> >
> > No it doesn't. It means that I've never owned one--not never used
> > one.
>
> No, it doesn't. It may be how you intended to use the turn of phrase,
> but if you have ever used something then you have not lived without
> it. Without is a definite.

Ok, then let me rephrase it: I've never owned Microsoft Windows or used
it, other than incidentally, in my personal life.

I have used it on the job, and when I needed to access email from a
public terminal or a friend's or relative's computer.

And that, sir, is essentially "living without it," unless one is a
literalist.

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