"apology" -- stretched again

[Victor Steinbok]

  Weasology is a great term but it only applies to some of the
non-apologies. It does not cover the stern, "If anyone was offended, I
am sorry." This is not weasel words at all--it's shifting the blame on
the thin-skinned "victims".

     VS-)

On 10/18/2010 11:01 AM, Paul Frank wrote:
> The term weasology popped into my head when I read the quote below.
> I'd never heard it before, and it only gets 26 googlits, but I like
> it. Here's one example:
>
> Readers of this page dubbed such apologies "weasologies," but perhaps
> a better name for them now would be "barnetts."
> <http://themalms.com/kradio/2004/02/20.html>
>
> Paul

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