Re: Larry Niven: Terrorize Latinos to Solve Health Care Crisis

In article <e7qs14lts3oq8idrf0flgusoj7fs6ca6ve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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John Schilling  <schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Sun, 4 May 2008 17:04:01 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc <jsavard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>wrote:
>>The spread of Islam caused untold human misery[...]
>
>Well, obviously not untold, on account of you're telling us all about
>it.  

In general, the "tell" in "untold" uses the older sense of "count".
This usage does not seem to me an exception.

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