[lbo-talk] The linguistic bubble!

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Mon Jul 11 20:16:11 PDT 2005


Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:28:41 -0500 From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] The linguistic bubble! To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Message-ID: <c7987d6b.1a76fa7b.81b9a00 at expms1.cites.uiuc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii


> Of course Carrol is right. George Galloway had a phrase for it, when he
said that the bombings were indefensible, but not
> inexplicable. --CGE

Of course the bombers had reasons for what they did (planting bombs is an action; not a reflex). We can probably even come up with a comprehensive list of candidate reasons without much difficulty. But as Heartfield suggested, full explication requires a bit more than that.

-- Luke



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