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Re: meanings not in english

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 14, 2003, 8:21
Staving B.Philip Jonsson:
>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?
This is a guess, but an author of fiction acknowledges it as such, and so there is no intent to deceive. Pete