On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Ray Saintongesaintonge@telus.net wrote:
A "lie of omission" is often considered to be a lie, as the name suggests.
That term is one of your own invention.
Lie of omission is his invention?
1m ghits http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22lie%20of%20omission%22 and 612 book hits http://books.google.com/books?num=100&q=%22lie of omission" and [[Lie#Types of lies]] (not to mention the multiple usages in our other articles: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch...)
all say to me that lie of omission is exactly what I thought it was: a common English phrase. Where is the invention here?