"apology" -- stretched again

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> At 10/13/2010 04:03 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >These have been called "unapologies".
>
> Aha!  The NYTimes reporters and headline writers should be instructed.

On Language Log we've used "non-apologies":

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003320.html

--bgz

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