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actually, polar, you may or may not have noticed that i wasn't taking part in the exchange between you two. i only added something after your last post.
it is strange to see arbitrary standards being set up as arguments against arbitrary standards. and surely you know about wire services and the complication they present for your claim that a degree of "validity" can be imputed to a particular article or factoid via repetition.
the funny thing is that much of your Problem here centers on a paraphrase of the opening line of the article will posted. the paraphrase is not much more than that. anyone who read the article would encounter the qualification that follows a paragraph or two below it.
so i honestly don't know what you're on about here.
it seems a pseudo-problem: maybe that's why your argument ends up going as far as it does, as if by jacking up the rhetoric in your critique you can make your point seem less slight.
it's not working.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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