Posted by special_k on April 4, 2006, at 4:40:43
In reply to Re: blocked for 2 weeks, posted by Dinah on April 4, 2006, at 0:58:56
> On the other hand you can say "President Bush said xxx on 4/15/03 but on 5/15/03 he said yyyy, or did yyyy." You could probably add "I find it difficult to reconcile the two statements." Which is a true I statement. Because conceivably the two statements are perfectly reconcilable, but you just are having difficulty doing it.lol.
yes. mental gymnastics...
still... there is a nice element of the understated in that and you allow people to draw their own conclusions.it can be really hard to think of these phrasings at the time :-(
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