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Thread #120345   Message #2616845
Posted By: Wolfgang
23-Apr-09 - 06:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: Arab views
Subject: RE: BS: Arab views
"The views of some Arabs"??? How careless to correctly spot one "the" and to overlook the sinister implications of the other "the".

No, no, the "the" implies that the views we have seen are the only views or all of the views they have, so the really correct expression is
"Some views of some Arabs". Or is it?

Perhaps they (or some of them?) have changed their (or some of their?) views meanwhile to something more or less nasty, so we (some of us?) should better say

"Some views of some Arabs at some time"

Wolfgang (sometimes)