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Re: ARTICLE : Reuters corrects itself
In article <5077is$rcq@news.ececs.uc.edu>, <sns@popd.ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>It is heartening to see Reuters changed their report, because of the protest.
>I guess it is probably harder to convince some of our own to look at things
>from a perspective other than what they have learnt about Hinduism from
>English books written by westerners or western trained Indians.
and then continued to write:
>I hope that atleast now that some of our own "self proclaimed experts" get
>off their soapboxes and maybe acknowledge that there can be a different
>perspective which could be valid.
Hmmm... let's see - a campaign to force a particular viewpoint on
someone else succeeds, and the campaigner tells _others_ to see that
different perspectives can be valid. At this point, I think I should
quote the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
o iro.ny n, pl -nies [L ironia, fr. Gk eironia, fr. eiron dissembler]
(1502) 1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn
from another assumed in order to make the other's false
conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning--called also
Socratic irony 2 a: the use of words to express something
other than and esp. the opposite of the literal meaning b: a
usu. humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized
by irony c: an ironic expression or utterance 3 a (1):
incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events
and the normal or expected result (2): an event or result
marked by such incongruity b: incongruity between a situation
developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that
is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the
play--called also dramatic irony, tragic irony syn see wit
-Vivek
