[Ads-l] Heard on Forensic files:

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 7, 2018, at 12:10 AM, Dave Hause <dwhause at CABLEMO.NET> wrote:
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> Well, maybe they wouldn't know "supine" but they'd know it ISN"T prone.

I’m not sure.  I learned marksmanship in summer camp at 8 or 9, and I did indeed learn prone at that point, but I’m not sure I would have deduced that lying on my back, with or without a rifle in my hands, wouldn’t have *also* been called prone.  For all I knew, “prone” meant lying down.   I’m sure it was several years after learning “prone” that I learned that supine wasn’t.

LH



> -----Original Message----- From: Dave Hause Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 11:08 PM To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Heard on Forensic files: 
> Anyone who ever had instruction in rifle marksmanship.
> Dave Hause
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> -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Lighter
> Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 7:47 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Heard on Forensic files:
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> Of course. But who else knows that?
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> JL
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> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "She was lying on her back, when she was stabbed, _in the prone position_."
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>> He meant to say, "in the _supine_ position," of course.
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