demonstrate = 'to demonstrate against; protest through demonstrating'

Thu Oct 27 22:26:09 UTC 2011

Not a "spealer." A "speaker."

JL

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> <font size=3>At 10/27/2011 12:38 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:<br>
> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">A CNN correspondent, probably in
> her thirties, very fluent in English<br>
> but a native spealer of Arabic, explains that Yemeni women "are
> not<br>
> just demonstrating the veil. They are demonstrating the violence
> [that<br>
> the government] has used against them."</font></blockquote><br>
> Performance art?<br>
> Joel<br><br>
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> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Cf. our earlier
> discussion of to "protest."<br><br>
> JL<br><br>
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