Posted on 05/18/2009 7:57:41 AM PDT by joeystoy
During a conversation on politics with an old friend I offered the hope that all his faith in our new president: "Ain't been in vain fer nuthin'."
With that he reared up and replied to my comment by saying: You always ridicule with clever solipsisms."
Far be it from me to be solipsistic, so I pointed out that he probably meant solecism.
Mistake 1: Never quote Lina Lamont at a New York City cocktail party. They won't know what you're talking about.
Mistake 2: Never attempt to correct the tortured misuse of the English language by New York intellectuals who pride themselves on their rhetorical skills. Especially New York intellectuals who took such great glee in equating our former president's acyrologia-laden speech with a simian level of intelligence.
Far be it from me to defend George W. Bush's tortured misuse of English. I confess that I still hold the bigoted view that fuzzy syntax indicates fuzzy thinking.
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