Chris Turkel <zizban at adelphia.net> writes: > > > Hm. I don't remember one way or the other: Are there any moons? > > Tides have been mentioned, which infers the presence of a moon. Tides > without a moon (with just a sun) would be very small, akin to those > found on lakes. Good point. But here's a didactic grammar nitpick: [Tides imply] or [We can infer >from tides] the presence of a moon, but tides, presumably being non-sentient, do not infer anything at all. As my linguistics professor liked to say, quoting his advisor, "Linguists have more fun than people.". <-- Yeah, yeah, I know; I hate standard style guidelines for how quotes interact with punctuation because it can be [highly confusing] / [wrong] in technical settings, I so I usually use logical rather than stylistic formatting. - tky