Thursday, February 24, 2005
"The law should protect me, not burglars!"
This, as you might have noticed, is one of the Tories' campaign slogans. I root out perverse interpretations and syntactic ambiguity both for a living and for my personal gratification. So, you can imagine how pleasant it was to notice that I'd parsed the slogan thus:
"The law should protect me, not burglars!"
Otto Beat Dis