I'm not quite sure that's the case. Ray said "That term is one of your own invention" which seemed to convey a belief that it was a new usage made up by Thomas Dalton.
Mark skype: node.ue On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:46 AM, lennart guldbrandsson<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:39:25 -0400 >> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Are we running out of sources >> >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Ray Saintonge<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> A "lie of omission" is often considered to be a lie, as the name suggests. >> >>> > >> > That term is one of your own invention. >> >> Lie of omission is his invention? >> >> 1m ghits http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22lie%20of%20omission%22 >> and 612 book hits http://books.google.com/books?num=100&q="lie of omission" >> and [[Lie#Types of lies]] (not to mention the multiple usages in our other >> articles: >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=0&search=lie+of+omission&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1) >> >> all say to me that lie of omission is exactly what I thought it was: a >> common English phrase. Where is the invention here? >> >> -- >> gwern > > What I believe was the question here was not who coined the phrase "lie of > ommission", but rather who brought it into the discussion. > > /Lennart > > Lennart Guldbrandsson, ordförande för Wikimedia Sverige > http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida > > Tfn: 031 - 12 50 48 > Mobil: 070 - 207 80 05 > Epost: [email protected] > Användarsida: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare:Hannibal > Blogg: http://mrchapel.wordpress.com/ > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Med Windows Live kan du ordna, redigera och dela med dig av dina foton. > http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/windows/windowslive/products/photo-gallery-edit.aspx > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
