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Originally Posted by mbyron
Actually, I see his point. "All runners, other than the batter..." is misleading because the batter is NOT a runner.
"All vegetables, other than tomatoes..." has the same problem, kinda. The only tiny quibble is that the term 'vegetables' is not botanically on a par with 'fruits', but that's the tiniest of nits.
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It's just that all squash and cucumbers are also "fruit" like tomatoes are "fruit". Which is why his sentence (and analogy) doesn't work.
And while we are at it, the whole idea that tomatoes are fruit came from a customs or tarif designation. It was never botanical.
Rita