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To: Xenalyte

Wideawake: "Placing what she actually said in its context is precisely what Breitweiser, these assemblywomen, Hewitt and Peach do not want you to do."

Xenalyte: "One need not know the context to declare a quotation out of context. By definition, all quotations are "out of context.""

As I said, someone seemed to know what the context was supposed to be.


264 posted on 06/08/2006 1:59:01 PM PDT by republicofdavis
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To: republicofdavis; wideawake
Wideawake: "Placing what she actually said in its context is precisely what Breitweiser, these assemblywomen, Hewitt and Peach do not want you to do."

Wideawake is completely correct. Placing a quotation in context means reading it in its proper place, in the midst of its surrounding material.

The New Jerseyites don't want you to read the book.

Ergo, they don't want you to know the context.
279 posted on 06/08/2006 2:02:54 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.)
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