2011/3/13 John Francis <[email protected]>: > > Try reading that part of the argument as saying: > > Don't lose perspective. There's a whole lot more disruption and > death caused by other aspects of these "natural disasters"; > focussing too much attention on the nuclear power plant will > only cause attention to shift from more pressing problems. > > I'm not sure that's the whole message (or even part of the message) > that the author was trying to push. But I think it's at least as > plausible a reading as shifting blame away from nuclear power.
OK I'm prepared to blame that on my being a non native speaker but I fail to read any of that in the paragraph - how do others feel about this? And does being that ambivalent/ambiguous make it poor writing? Thanks Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
