But that limitation does not mean, as some carpers argue, that it is mistake to hold it at all.

如同一些苛评者所言，局限性并不意味着调查本身是错误的？ ~。

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Maybe the carpers are right about inflation exploding, about gold spiking along with silver.

FORBES: The US Has Off-Balance Sheet, Unrecorded Debt of 500% of GDP

FSA's clever and confident chairman, thinks these moves should be enough to silence the carpers.

ECONOMIST: Financial regulation

Somewhere along the way the writing and thinking folks (on both sides of the Atlantic) have ceded most of the public conversation about language to the carpers, whiners and peevers.

BBC: Viewpoint: American English is getting on well, thanks