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To: Yaelle
>>Remember this quote of Scaughty's?

"Violence towards women is unapproachable," Scott Peterson said. "It is the most disgusting act, to me."

Wasn't that choice of words so strange? Unapproachable? Disgusting?<<

I think it was a stupid Freudian Slip on Snotty's part. I think he got the word "unapproachable" confused with "irreproachable" in that he thought the first word was the opposite of the second word (which it is not).

From Dictionary.com

irreproachable

adj : free of guilt; not subject to blame; "has lived a blameless life"; "of irreproachable character"; "an unimpeachable reputation" [syn: blameless, inculpable, unimpeachable]



112 posted on 11/06/2003 12:19:37 PM PST by An American In Dairyland
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To: An American In Dairyland
Wasn't that choice of words so strange? Unapproachable?

Definitely strange; I had wondered if he meant to say 'unacceptable.'

120 posted on 11/06/2003 12:30:39 PM PST by Lucy Lake
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To: An American In Dairyland
I never thought of that, I had thought that he meant to say "innapropriate" and got mixed up with the fact that he had approached laci (with intended violence). The contradiction led him to conflagrate the words.
141 posted on 11/06/2003 12:52:37 PM PST by Queen Jadis (Violence against women is unapproachable. ... She was ok with it. Glorious... I WEEP IN JAIL)
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