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Comment author: Carinthium 23 November 2010 07:20:47AM -2 points [-]

1- To be fair, some... features might look different if Mary hadn't actually been penetrated. 2- Historically, I'm not sure if the concept of the white lie as a formal concept had been invented then. If it had been, it almost certainly wasn't called that. 3- Betty wasn't a Jewish name.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 November 2011 08:11:55PM 1 point [-]

If it had been, it almost certainly wasn't called that.

It's not like she was speaking English anyway, so if you're using a translation you could as well use an idiomatic one.