>> >> There is a third alternative you overlooked:
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>> There cannot be a 'third alternative'.
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>> Alternative: either one or the other, from alternate.
I'm at a crap barbecue and a bit bored, I'll give it a go as an alternative to drinking even more or going home.......
Surely it is possible for there to be more than two alternatives?
"Standard is blue, but the alternatives are yellow, red and pink".
So it's blue or yellow, blue or red, and blue or pink. So even though there are three alternatives there is only one choice. The blue or an alternative colour.
Alternate is a whole 'nother thing suggesting some form of taking turns.
p.s. I was going to write the wrong version of ´perhaps I should have had another drink´as a joke. But I could not bring myself to do it.
Last edited by: No FM2R on Sat 19 Dec 20 at 23:02
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