[AF] Tortured English of the day
Rich Wood
richwood
Sat May 26 08:17:58 CDT 2007
------ At 01:28 PM 5/25/2007, Sid Schweiger wrote: -------
>Sounds to me like the report about a person who "allegedly died."
Thank the legal department for that. "Allegedly" gives them wriggle
room With "allegedly" in front of it, it ceases to be a fact.
"Alleged mob boss Al Capone dies in prison of a nasty disease" is
fact - the disease part. We're not willing to declare him to be a mob
boss. Remember that John Gotti claimed to be a zipper salesman.
In the time of Christ news departments could have been sued for
reporting that He died.
Rich
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