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Old 08-06-2008, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by OtterPop View Post
Perhaps you're talking about other things posted on that site, but I didn't see any "malicious lies" in the quotes you posted here.

I understand that you don't like his tone, but I didn't see any actual untruths that he wrote.
The second sentence is not a lie, per se, but it is a question that implies an answer that is not justified by the evidence. Pretty darn close to a lie, in that it tends to make a (unspoken, assumed) lie look reasonable.

There's quite an art to this kind of unspoken accusation.


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