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To: maceng2 who wrote (38853)	11/18/2000 6:01:32 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

With respect to your question about New Hampshire, I don't have an answer. With respect to your humor, well, you are British, and you guys are famous for understated, dry humor, which I admire.

To: maceng2 who wrote (38853)	11/18/2000 6:33:41 PM
From: Oblomov	Respond to of 436258

pearly... I got the joke also. Are you familiar with NLP? It's largely hogwash. But, the parts that are not hogwash are an extension of Chomsky's Transformational Syntax apparatus, and are taught to the psy-ops forces that travel to foreign lands to undermine the governments there. Our rulers..er... leaders use the same syntactical structures regardless of party affiliation, many of which seem to be taken from an NLP manual. The solutions to political problems of the day are all framed in the same manner: a) the desired outcome (no child should go to bed hungry), b) the people standing in our way (greedy rich folks), c) how we will achieve our goals despite the nasty people standing in our way (the Hungry Child Act of 2000). Again, the 1-2-3 structure. Note the correspondence to the basic structure of Western music, namely a) statement of original melodic phrase, b) tension against a, and c) restatement of a and resolution with b. These are "deep structures" indeed.