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To: SteveMcKing
"You mean I don't have to feel vaguely inadequate as I drift into a stupor waiting for him to finish his sentences, with all those big, obscure words, intoned ponderously?"

Would you prefer hip-hop?

Pygmy? Bushmen 'click'?

It's just that erudition & a big vocabulary can be used to clarify difficult topics, or merely to impress the hoi polloi, and I always get this queasy feeling when either reading or listening to him that he's...

But maybe it's just me. :-)

205 posted on 02/24/2006 11:44:41 PM PST by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed.)
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To: jennyp

If you got Him and Jack Palance both trying to give a speech, the audience would be desperatly pushing the fast-forward button.


229 posted on 02/25/2006 7:57:12 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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