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To: KLP who wrote (147330)11/17/2005 7:39:09 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793810
 
I'm sure we wil find common ground on something, but WMD isn't it.

We ought to be able to agree on English. It's the first language for both of us, after all. "Mass" is an ordinary English adjective with an ordinary meaning. Ordinary people understand ordinary meanings. Experts may use terms of art that include ordinary words to mean something specific but ordinary people react to them as ordinary words until and unless the specific nature of the expression comes to light. Meanwhile, there are communications problem.

What's the difference between a cemetery and a mass grave? They both have lots of dead people. Cemeteries bury dead one by one under ordinary circumstances. Mass graves occur under extraordinary circumstances when some overwhelming event occurs with lots of bodies all at one time and a disruption in the system of burying them individually. It could be a plague or natural disaster or an atrocity that kills so many people all at one time. Likewise, a handgun is an ordinary weapon that kills people in onsies or twosies. A nuclear explosion kills tens or even hundreds of thousands. "Mass" is exemplified by nukes, not handguns.

A large part of the problem that resulted in so many people thinking that Bush "lied" was early misunderstanding over the term, WMD. Attributing maliciousness to a simple misunderstanding is not constructive.
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