timewarp

[arethinn]

I'm not sure, but I think a few minutes ago I may have said "here and now is not the time and place" (for a conversation).

Grammatically, that makes "here" a time, and "now" a place, as opposed to having said "...not the place and time."

The implications are amusing.

Comments

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Actually, since it's negation we're into, oughtn't I to have said "Not the time nor the place"?

[juuro.livejournal.com]

Hmm... If I were addressing a joint concept of time-and-place (which would make excellent sense in a relativistic universe), I'd be hesitant to break it apart. However, our analyses so far have seemed to consider the time and place as atomics, instead of the atomic time-and-place. And, in deed, DeMorgan's decomposition rules state that the negation of a conjunction does result in the disjunction of negations.