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To: Dale Baker who wrote (18244)	5/10/2006 4:07:13 PM
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Aside from PCism, I nevertheless think that choices of words, as well as decisions as to how to characterize things, are meaningful and are often deliberately chosen so as to influence the reader or listener. That was one reason for the short link I gave you this morning regarding how to spot bias. It is sometimes very subtle. That tendency to nitpick isn't reserved for the political extremes either. I've seen plenty of nitpicking on this thread by people who espouse the centrist view.<g> While it is more often directed to the shades of meaning attached to a given argument, there is little functional difference, imo. Perhaps it's just a human thing that tends to bubble up more often when communication is limited to the written word, without additional verbal or visual clues.

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