pass out

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:53:19PM -0400, Mark A Mandel wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Donald M Lance wrote:
>
> #> ....... Maybe the crew member talking to the dispatcher is inferring
> #> "passed out, unconscious" from a less explicit message from the
> #> conductor, but s/he is reporting it as a fact.
> #
> #My guess is that the decision-maker assumed 'passed out' = 'fainted', not
> #something like a heart attack.
>
> Yes, but that doesn't explain the original sentence that bothered me:
>
>   It is unclear whether the crew realized that Allen was
>   unconscious when they reported that he had "passed out."

I do find this a little odd too, but perhaps this means "It is unclear
whether the crew realized that Allen was _still_ unconscious..." i.e,
the crew may have thought that he had briefly passed out but was then
revived, when in fact he passed out and remained unconscious.

Jesse Sheidlower