CDR: Re: Niiice kitty....

mike d mike at otak.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Oct 4 06:56:02 PDT 2000


A quick compare and contrast:

Chomsky said:
>: :    and repeated discoveries
>: :    that massacre reports were false

James A. Donald said:
> As to where
> "repeated discoveries that the massacre reports were false" comes from
                             ^^^
and:
> My favorite example is of course "repeated discoveries that the massacre
> reports were false".                                        ^^^

The first one means "reports of a significant number of massacres were 
discovered to be false". The second and third ones means "it was 
repeatedly discovered that all of the reports of massacres were false".

"fabricates or falsifies quotes" eh?

mike.





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