"Because I cannot flatter and speak fair, do not hold me a rancorous enemy," he said.
She spoke fair if rusty English, and she had a dictionary handy to ease conversation with her guest.
In a rhetorical culture, Lynch writes, "poetry offers itself to readers not as a love object, but rather as a source of instruction in how to speak fair... and thus in how to woo love objects and advance in the world".
By the age of twenty Lie had a good command of Sundanese and Malay; he also spoke fair Dutch, a rarity for ethnic Chinese at the time.
Surely one can make an argument about counting votes in Florida without telling any lies -- i.e., so many did cast their votes, in whatever faith, and they are good Democrats, and good Americans, and they care so much, and if we don't count them they'll vote for the devil, and we need them in November, and so we really should count their votes, even if it isn't, strictly speaking, honest or fair.
Odds are he spoke, a fair amount.
Many of them speak a fair brand of high school English.
When Reagan spoke on fair taxation, he said, "In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying ten percent of his salary, and that's crazy.
"It's vital that if the European Union wants to speak about fair deals it should at least guarantee Greek borders [with Turkey] so the country can bring down military spending to 2.2%." The imbalance has spawned speculation that peripheral countries in Europe with vulnerable frontiers such as Greece are being exploited in terms of defence spending by wealthier states at Europe's core.
