Monday, May 26, 2008
When is an apology not an apology?
This, http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=187 , is an excellent analysis of the classic way that politicians and many public figures love to apologize without apologizing. You cannot apologize for my reaction to something! You can only apologize for what you did. If you said something that offended people, then to apologize you must recant what you said, not the public reaction.
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Hmmm, either I need to bone up on my html (I have zero) or blogger.com is lazy. Probably both. It seems reasonable to expect a url to show up as a hyperlink automatically. It does in all my emails and everywhere else that I type them, even just text editing software.
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