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[Gwern Branwen]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Aaron Clark <aaronc1 at umbc.edu> wrote:
>> You tend to throw around the word "slander" alot.
>
> I don't throw it around a lot V.  I use it, like any other word in the
> English language, when it is appropriate.

Actually, you *aren't* using it appropriately.

V's statements on this list would be 'libel', because they are
written; only if he had, to use your own reference, chose to audibly
'utter' those statements would they be 'slander'. The distinction goes
back at least to Blackstone.

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gwern