05-27-2009, 04:29 PM
Quote:Ah, is that it. Thank you for the quick help, Pete.
I never suspected there would be a Wiki page on 'Strawman'. There might not even be a Dutch equivalent of the word, afaik. The examples, especially those on universal healthcare and the war in Iraq, showed me that it's important to know about it, though.
Finally, the day has come that I can tell somebody on the lounge about something on internet that I know and the other person doesn't.:)
Zenda, on wikipedia you can find the word in other languages....as long as somebody made a page about it in the language you are interested in. Strawman spells Stropopredenering in dutch......a much nicer word indeed. (but I must admit, I had never heard of it)
It is something you find very often on the lounge by the way. :blink: