Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Mix n' Match Sentences

Here is a quote from Pres. Obama regarding the Bush-tax-cuts-unemployment-free-for-all:
"This isn't about the politics of the moment.
It's about what we can do right now."

Either I didn't do enough sentence diagramming as a kid, or miss parsing syntax, but something makes me want to take these two sentences and mix n' match them.

How about these alternates:
"This isn't about the politics of right now.
It's about what we can do for the moment."

Then throw in some logic (see, I knew this stuff would come in handy one day, just like those NP-complete analysis of algorithm truisms like "NP complete" (unsolvable problems) or the laws of thermodynamics..)

politics === what we can do
right now === the moment
(equivalencies)

I know some of my readers *hate* taking mathematical or scientific theories and applying them to social or political situations. Well then - you have a constitutional right to write your own blog, and it will just be for mathematicians.

So what did Obama say exactly?

"This isn't about what we can do right now.
It's about the politics of the moment."

Oh! Of course!

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