From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 14:02:12 MDT
--- Damien Sullivan <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 12:58:17PM -0400, Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> > understand and to accept. We, the U. S., have been the receipents
> > of a declaration of war and had several thousand of our citizens
> > killed in that
>
> Idiolects differ, but I certainly wouldn't call 2,800 "several
> thousand". In my idiolect "a few" is about 3-6 and "several" is
> 7 to some vaguer number above which is "many", although "many"
> might also work for 7+. But "a few"
> should definitely be at least three, and "several" more than that.
A few is two, anything more is several. I see that with the 9/11
anniversary, it is now open season for liberals to launch the Great
Historical Revision upon the events of the last year. By discounting
the fatalities, it is sought to discount the alleged reasons to wage
war on bin Laden, Saddam, and muslim fundamentalism wherever it rears
it's head.
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