negation + "including" (dangling modifier for free)

[Victoria Neufeldt]

>
> i'm not sure we can criticize jason green so strongly on this one.
> to be fair to green, the first reference class is university
> officials and city staff, not just council members, so there's a
> group (of more than one, potentially) for kishimoto to be
> included in.

Okay, I guess my eyes swept over that first line too quickly!

Victoria

> but it's still inept.  the problem is that "university officials and
> city staff" looks too universal; the "although" clause is probably
> going to be understood as claiming that *all* members of this class
> touted the agreement as a historic deal.  but then we learn that
> kishimoto clearly was of another opinion.  then, if we're generous,
> we go back and re-interpret "university officials and city staff" as
> "some university officials and city staff".  *then* we're got the
> larger reference class, which includes the touters and
> kishimoto too,
> without any implicature that kishimoto was among the touters.
>
> arnold

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