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OT for Conservatives who think war is grand
On 02 Jan 2004 07:43:22 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:
It would appear as though you were again putting words in someone's
mouth.
John H
No, it's a device known as "characterizing."
No person actually spoke those words.
They were simply chosen to represent, or "characterize" two contrasting
approaches.
What the heck do you teach, John?
I suspect it isn't language arts. :-)
I'm retired from teaching math. Now I do substitute teaching, which is
cheap babysitting unless the subject is math. Then I will teach
whatever the lesson of the day is.
"Characterizing" sounds like a neat trick. That means I can basically
do whatever I want with someone's statement. I could take something
like this,
"We aim to change this. We aim to make the case and rally support for
American global leadership."
and, by "characterizing" change it to,
"We aim to bend the world to our moral and religious values, to
economically and morally colonize other countries, and become the
world's moral and military police."
I guess, if twisting and turning is allowed, then this
"characterization" stuff is quite cool. Thanks for the language arts
lesson.
John H
On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!
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