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Nat Hentoff: Abortion and the English language
Jewish World Review ^
| 12/5/06
| Nat Hentoff
Posted on 12/05/2006 1:32:50 PM PST by Caleb1411
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To: hunter112
"Did your great-great-grandfather have a bumper sticker on his buckboard that said, "Don't like slavery? Then don't own one!" Nice! I'm going to steal that!
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12/08/2006 8:19:23 AM PST
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Mr. Silverback
(We need to crush the Iraq Study Group like we crushed Harriet Miers. Let fly!)
To: 2banana; Caleb1411
Another one: "The corruption of man is followed by corruption of language." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
These observations may help explain the word twisting by people who are up to no good, abortionists, euthanazis and American reporters among them.
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12/08/2006 8:56:21 AM PST
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T'wit
(Using the right word instead of the almost-right word is like getting laid instead of laid off.)
To: Cincinna
Hentoff is great, except when he's about to put Hitlery up for canonization for voting against the Military Commissions Act, and other such blind spots. His soul will be saved but the republic may be lost.
To: ravensandricks
>> Back to the topic, kind of: I hadn't realized Hentoff was a pro-lifer.
Hentoff wrote a memorable and hard-hitting series of columns defending Terri Schiavo. It did not endear him to his own Village Voice readers, but he was resolute. In fact, he was one of the earlier voices to speak up for Terri. He covered the story for several years. As he put it in one column, he is an atheist, so in his view, life is all we have. The right to life is fundamental.
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12/08/2006 12:42:10 PM PST
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T'wit
(Using the right word instead of the almost-right word is like getting laid instead of laid off.)
To: Mr. Silverback
Nice! I'm going to steal that! You may have it on a silver platter with my compliments! I also use: "Well, I wouldn't beat my wife, but I'm not going to interefere with someone else's family matters. That's exactly the reasoning used just a couple of generations ago, when women were considered a husband's property, just like an unborn baby is considered a woman's property today."
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12/08/2006 4:39:54 PM PST
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hunter112
(Total victory at home and in the Middle East!)
To: dirtboy
I am a conservative about the meaning of words.
Republic and democracy...know what I mean?
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