At 12:24 AM 7/18/2003 +0000 Robert J. Chassell wrote:
>No, not quite. If my memory serves me right, US President Bush did
>not say that the `British said'. Instead, Bush said that the `British
>learned'. There is a difference. In everyday language, people do not
>say of others that they learned a lie, unless the belief on the part
>of speaker that it is false is specified. The default presumption in
>language is that when you say someone else learned, that what they
>learned is true.
This, of course, was a totally unreasonable presumpion regarding
intelligence from our British allies, which they had strongly vouched for
in response to US questions.
JDG
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