Not involved in this story, but that's what i thought. It's not just false, it's impossiblehttps://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/662714250121482240 …
@gabrielmalor @joshgerstein It's the "the scholarship" — the 2nd usage — that makes it hard for me to buy the idea that this was not ...
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@gabrielmalor@joshgerstein ... an intention to reference a specific, not generalized, scholarship offer. I know that's drilling down ... -
@chrisgeidner@joshgerstein If you're 17 with grades for Yale, and General offers you a free ride to WP, unreasonable call it a scholarship? -
@gabrielmalor@joshgerstein Also: The walkback to the NYT is that it was "informal" & "we could easily get you a scholarship." -
@gabrielmalor@joshgerstein Which was my point about the "the" in the second reference. That's specific, not generic, and not "informal." -
@chrisgeidner@joshgerstein That "the" is being asked to do a lot of work here. -
@gabrielmalor@joshgerstein A lot of things are being asked to do a lot of work today, Gabe.
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