Subject: An opinion on opinions
Date: May 13 14:02:26 1999
From: Don Baccus - dhogaza at pacifier.com


At 01:53 PM 5/13/99 -0700, Don Baccus wrote:
>At 01:44 PM 5/13/99 -0700, Steven Kimball wrote:
>
>>Is there anyone out there in Tweeters land who can't recognize an opinion
>>without a label? (See below for full context). When Jacki Bricker writes
>>that "any wildlife rehabilitator worth their salt does not display
>>preferential treatment of one species over another." it is pretty obvious
>>from the nature of the construction that she is expressing an opinion.
>
>Then she should learn to write english clearly and unambiguously.

To be more explicit, no, it is not clear. The construction is in the
form of a statement of fact, not of opinion.



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