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Capture windows which are larger than the screen
Authored by: chyna4xena on Jul 06, '06 10:06:57PM

You guys are having a doozy of an argument, the latter stages of which I don't have anything to say about. I just wanted to point out something that I think is obvious: you could only say the original hint was 'incorrect' by demanding that the phrase "stuff which is outside" mean "stuff which is outside the window's current view" instead of "stuff which is outside the screen".

Previously in the sentence, the object "the screen" had been mentioned, but "the windows current view" had not. Therefore, it is grammatically incorrect to say that the implied object must be "the window's current view" - that object hadn't been mentioned, so it couldn't be an implied object!

The correct interpretation, the only sensible interpretation, of the parenthesised phrase is "stuff which is outside of the screen". You cannot use the phrase "full content" to argue otherwise, because they define their "full content" in the parenthesised phrase (it is not left with an ambiguous meaning) and as I said, according to the rules of English, the only object eligible to be considered as a possibility for the implied object in the parenthesised phrase is "the screen". You cannot simply throw whatever objects you want in there and then claim that the original poster is wrong.



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Capture windows which are larger than the screen
Authored by: nomadman on Jul 07, '06 05:40:47AM
You are right chyna4xena. And your point was my original argument before I got carried away into GUI theory. I quote myself:
The "including the stuff which is outside" part was obviously making a reference to the previous clause "Even if the window is bigger (wider or taller) than the actual screen", and not to the "content" of the directory.
There is no abiguity on the hint if you read it completely. It was gramatically clear that he was talking about the screen and not the window area. Reading the comments we can infer most readers got it as intended and quite liked the hint in fact. You said it better than me though. Thanks for bringing us back to the actual issue.

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