But you can say, "So and so is a good person, and this thing they did was bone-headed." And you can say, "So and so is basically a good person, but has a blind spot right about here."
Yes, we can. I think most of the time that's what's done (I hope). I am trying to figure out why I don't feel that's what's being done today. I am very much feeling a witch hunt today. It's...sort of no-way-out language on the part of some speakers? Abuse language. I think that's struck a nerve in me.
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Date: 2007-08-30 07:21 pm (UTC)Yes, we can. I think most of the time that's what's done (I hope). I am trying to figure out why I don't feel that's what's being done today. I am very much feeling a witch hunt today. It's...sort of no-way-out language on the part of some speakers? Abuse language. I think that's struck a nerve in me.
(This could be the pigpile thing again.)
I would really rather change the market.