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From: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: More semantic reversals
Message-ID: <4184@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 13:39:03 EST
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.4184
Posted: Tue Mar  5 13:39:03 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 04:22:28 EST
Reply-To: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP (Rich Wales)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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To "charge", of course, has two quite opposite meanings too:

    (1) To accuse of wrongdoing.

    (2) To entrust with a responsibility.

For example, the January 31 Los Angeles Times carried the following
in the obituary of Sir Robert Fraser, who died on January 20:

	Fraser was appointed director general of the Independent
	Television Authority in 1954 and was charged with creating
	a commercial alternative to the state-owned British Broad-
	casting Corp., which is funded by television license fees.

	He admitted at the time that he didn't own a TV set.

Now, what *I* want to know is:

    (1) Was Sir Robert convicted of the abovementioned crime?  :-}

    (2) You mean it's against British law not to own a TV set?  :-}
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