Talk:Weasel word

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Omission by Pronoun was one of the terms the Graduate students at CU used for something similar. Unintentionally in most cases, student papers often came back with sentences like "They went there and then the Indians came and they attacked them". Okahhhh. I see this style at CP far too often, and the "great one" (ehem) makes this mistake far too often for anyone who claims to be a teacher much less a student of Jurisprudence. Freaky --WaitingforGodot 17:59, 10 July 2008 (EDT)

I've removed the following fairly bizarre "example":
"A professor punished a student with a lower grade for having done something politically incorrect outside of class." This creates the illusion that the student was given an undeserved grade for doing something liberals don't like, instead of rape.
It isn't made clear which part of that uses weasel words & I don't see that any of it does. It's just an example of somebody misunderstanding the term "weasel word" & using it to mean euphemism or exaggeration by omission. Also, if we use examples as specific as this, which I presume was based on a real event, we should cite where they're from. WéáśéĺóíďWeaselly.jpgMethinks it is a Weasel 15:40, 15 February 2009 (EST)
Also removed:
"No one else has reproduced [Professor Richard] Lenski's findings." While failing to mention that the research in question concluded about a month before commenting and that it took 20 years to be done thus giving the illusion that the experiment was a fraud.
"No one else has" is a firm statement, not weasel words. The fact that the author omits some of the details does not turn it into weasel words. If the statement said "scarcely anybody else has" or "it is unlikely that anybody could", those would be weasel words. WéáśéĺóíďWeaselly.jpgMethinks it is a Weasel 15:45, 15 February 2009 (EST)
You are a weasel, so that explains your knowledge of weaselly words. --"CURtalk 15:46, 15 February 2009 (EST)

Anyone going to set up WeaselWordWiki?

[edit] What about

... Meerkat words? (as Alexander Orlov would ask)

Simples.

82.44.143.26 (talk) 17:41, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Do weasels beg, or don't they?

  • "Is President Obama really a radical Muslim socialist who hates America?"

That looks more like begging the question to me, although I can also see it as a weaselly insinuation of the assumed premise. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 18:14, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

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