Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cepu!ucla-cs!wales 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 Lines: 34 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? :-} -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rich Wales University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall Los Angeles, California 90024 // USA -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Phone: (213) 825-5683 // +1 213 825 5683 ARPANET: wales@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!wales -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-