Re: oh please.
pcg <[email protected]>
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>> If a comedian walks out of the House of Representatives and jovially >> says to the security officers at the door, "I just murdered everyone >> in there," how far do you think he would get? ;) > > Sure. I just don't see Palin saying that. Maybe it's in right-wing code? ;) Heh. Well, "murdering" (as you may already know) is a common term among comedians, and it simply means they made everyone laugh. In the context of a comedian saying it, you'd imagine it wouldn't be taken literally, but I bet in this case it would. The point, of course, is simply that "context" doesn't denote a universal understanding. -- -pcg [email protected] -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot