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Originally Posted by carld
Putting "how to" in quotes doesn't really change the meaning in that instance.
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
... You're probably the victim of bad timing more than anything else ...
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What I wrote was:
Possibly, who knows, it might delight some non-religious non-homophobic pacifists, who find a "how to" book about homosexual rape offensive, because sexual rape involves violence?
Read the line without the two words in quotation marks.
Possibly ... it might delight ... pacifists, who find ... a ... book about ... rape ... because ... involves violence?
NOT
Possibly ... it might delight ... pacifists, who find a "how to" book about ... rape ...?
In other words, possibly pacifists might find works of fiction about rape offensive, who knows?
With the benefit of hindsight, I should have worded what I wrote more carefully, perhaps something like this:
Possibly, who knows, it might delight some non-religious non-homophobic pacifists, who find books about homosexual rape offensive, because sexual rape involves violence, even if the book is fiction and not really a how-to book?
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I hope somebody at Amazon reads this thread and reconsiders their decision ...
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Originally Posted by kennyc
and we should consider applying that same common sense dosage to the population at large.  |
Quite. Are we singing from the same hymn sheet now?
