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Accurate language can mislead too.

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September 19, 2021, 20:14
BobHale
Accurate language can mislead too.
The British Government says that insufficient winter fuel supplies is "not a cause for immediate concern."
That's probably true but it's also a good example of answering the wrong question. "Is this a cause for concern?" is a very different question to "Is this a cause for immediate concern?" If the answer to the first is "yes" it would be better to deal with it before the answer to the second is also "yes"!


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
September 24, 2021, 20:05
Kalleh
Absolutely. It reminds me of using multiple negatives in a sentence so that you never really quite know what they are saying. I just don't get it.