Re: meanings not in english
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 17:01 |
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At 12:07 11.5.2003 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>The Catholic church, which has reasons to distinguish kinds of sins,
>does make this distinction, thus making the types of lies threefold:
>malicious, officious, and jocose lies. Officious lies are those told
>to benefit oneself or another.
Is jocose lies a sin at all? And where do they draw the line between
lies and fiction?
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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