In message <000c01c4ad39$91f5c240$29b068d5@ntlworld>, at 14:20:17 on
Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Ian Welton <[log in to unmask]> writes
>A simple example:-
>
>Calcutt, David. Committee on Privacy and Related Matters 01/06/1990 Page ii.
>"I give the fight up: let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for
>me. I want to be forgotten even by God." Paracelsus. Robert Browning"
>
>Does Calcutt mean:
>
>he gives up;
>provides that quotation as a definition of privacy;
>as a warning to specific groups privacy threatens;
>as something to fill the blank back of a title page;
>or one of the other meanings it is possible to extract from that quotation
>when reconsidered from within the broader text of the report?
I have no idea why this is an example of "privacy", other than it's now
obvious to everyone (ie not private) that he's chosen a particularly
poor text, knowing that it will transcribed into gibberish, and that
makes him look like a poor speech writer.
--
Roland Perry
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