Mark Bowden
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I don't like it when the when these statements are non contracted.
OK, I did not rather than I didn't.
He's under a lot of stress here.
Well, of course, he's being accused of something.
So he is going to be under a lot of stress.
But there isn't here, I think, the anger that we would expect from somebody who's been accused of a horrible, horrible thing.
Yes.
A horrible crime.
You know, if you accused me of that crime, I would look straight down the camera at you.
I would get incredibly angry at you.
And I would say, you come at me because I will absolutely defend this.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I could say, I will not expand upon that, which sounds very kind of lawyerish, doesn't it?
You know, I will not, or I could say, look, I won't do that.
I won't do that.
One is way more direct.
The other is a little more indirect in the language.
I will not, I did not, you know, instead of I won't, I didn't.
Right.
the innocent will tend to contract more because they want to get to their meaning.