Translating English Sentences into Logical Expressions with Nested Quanitifiers

[nicnicman]

Hello everyone,

An example from a homework assignment has me stymied. There are two parts. Here they are:

First part:
Let M(x,y) be "x has sent y an e-mail message" and T(x,y) be "x has telephoned y," where the domain consists of all students in your class. Use quantifiers to express each of these statements. (Assume that all e-mail messages that were sent are received, which is not the way things often work.)

And the statement I'm having problems with:
There is a student in your class who has not received an e-mail message from anyone else in the class and who has not been called by any other student in the class.

Here is the answer from the book:
∃x∀y(x≠y → (¬M(x,y) ∧ ¬T(y,x)))

I agree with everything except for the order of x and y after M.
Why isn't it like this:
∃x∀y(x≠y → (¬M(y,x) ∧ ¬T(y,x)))

After all, since
M(x,y) = x has sent y an email message
and T(x,y) = x has telephoned y
it seems that y should come before x in both instances in the answer.

Could someone please clarify this for me.
Thanks.

 

[haruspex]

You are right.

 

[nicnicman]

Huh, must be a typo then. Thanks.