Of course it wasn ' t to pander to Moscow . My point was that bringing in a character representing the opponent into the good guys crew is a typical Star Trek thing . It ' s not about pandering since this is something that Star Trek has done from the start . <| sep |> That explains why rpolitics likes them so much <| sep |> 1010 . I ' m going blues dancing in Chicago this weekend . Want to come ? <| sep |> That was very informative and all but I don ' t mean computational linguistics ? I meant semiotics by Halliday . I think I ' ll clarify my first answer . I didn ' t mean to answer with regard to the meaning of the sentence itself . I just meant that the structure of the sentence is something is equal to something , or a b where a is the attribute five minus three and b is the token two . By no means did I mean to get into the epistemic value of the proposition , just the syntactic structure . But what you ' ve said is very interesting , thank you for sharing .