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January 19, 2005

How serious is “serious” ?

Filed under: — brendan @ 08:27 GMT

On the radio today, they had two different reports of someone having suffered “serious sexual assault.” Each reporter went out of their way to emphasize the word serious. So there are some examples of sexual assault not so serious? Just sorta “casual sexual assault” ? Harrumph.

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