> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:39:25 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Are we running out of sources > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Ray Saintonge<[email protected]> wrote: > >> A "lie of omission" is often considered to be a lie, as the name suggests. > >> > > > > That term is one of your own invention. > > Lie of omission is his invention? > > 1m ghits http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22lie%20of%20omission%22 > and 612 book hits http://books.google.com/books?num=100&q="lie of omission" > and [[Lie#Types of lies]] (not to mention the multiple usages in our other > articles: > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=0&search=lie+of+omission&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1) > > all say to me that lie of omission is exactly what I thought it was: a common > English phrase. Where is the invention here? > > -- > gwern
What I believe was the question here was not who coined the phrase "lie of ommission", but rather who brought it into the discussion. /Lennart Lennart Guldbrandsson, ordförande för Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida Tfn: 031 - 12 50 48 Mobil: 070 - 207 80 05 Epost: [email protected] Användarsida: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare:Hannibal Blogg: http://mrchapel.wordpress.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Med Windows Live kan du ordna, redigera och dela med dig av dina foton. http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/windows/windowslive/products/photo-gallery-edit.aspx _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
