Posted on 01/16/2015 6:14:06 AM PST by artichokegrower
Scores of people in Istanbul held funeral prayers on Friday to honor Cherif and Said Kouachi, the gun-toting brothers who killed 12 people last week in Paris.
Some 160 people — all of them men — shouted "God is great!" They held a banner showing former al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden's picture on one side, and the Kouachi brothers superimposed over the Parisian skyline on the other.
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I know some well armed men here in America who could make your wish a reality.
Since when was 160 people considered “scores”?
Has that country lost Freedom in just one generation?
Mark Steyn illustrates how it happened here: http://www.steynonline.com/6520/young-turks
The secular Turks don’t have babies, the Islamist Turks do.
By definition a score is 20. 160 is “8 score”. The word isn’t used very often anymore, but it’s probably the best grouping for a number this size.
And if the press knew about this... then why did our armed forces know about it? and if our armed forces knew about it... why wasn’t a bomb dropped on this group of terrorists while they were all gathered together in the same place?
When it’s used in the Bible, I think 20. When it’s used in the media, I think thousands.
“Four score and seven years ago...”
Well, technically 160 is 8 score. But in a city of approximately 15 million, that's a microscopic turnout.
So score is correct but somewhat misleading because of that secondary definition.
I think the best way to use score is like "4 score and 7 years ago", because score used with a number loses that vagueness. Thus, "8 score" would've been more concise English.
I trivialize. It's my inner mathematician. <^..^>
I think “scores” is entirely appropriate here. A quantity that’s more than dozens but less than hundreds.
Because it would have been an act of war against a member of NATO?
If someone is harboring terrorists, they are no ally of ours.
I say anytime any of these terrorists get together for a speech or a furneral or a parade, we drop a daisy cutter on them. I don’t care where they are.
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