To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 03:24:06 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ambiguous headline
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:20:05 -0500 (EST) "Keith F. Lynch"
<kfl at KeithLynch.net> writes:
> I recently saw the following alarming headline at CNN.COM:
>
>   One of six New York men pleads guilty to aiding al Qaeda
>
> I was rather distressed, until I read the story.  No, it doesn't
> really assert that 1.67 million of the ten million male residents
> of the Empire State have admitted to assisting terrorists.
>
> It's a wonder we're able to communicate at all with this language.
> --

Perhaps equally surprising is the implication that the adult male
population of New York numbers but six.  From watching Kojak, I had
formed the impression that there were surely dozens of men in NY, and
possibly even hundreds.  But of course that show was set in the 1970s.

Ron Kean

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