Re: I swear I'd not read this until moments ago. But I've a Pulitzer Prize winner on my side.

Post #435,813 by boxley 8/20/20 4:07:33 PM 8/20/20 4:07:33 PM Reply	Re: I swear I'd not read this until moments ago. But I've a Pulitzer Prize winner on my side. that is not a plus that cite is a great example of one hand fapping. people(s) vocabulary and pronunciation is an evolving thing. There is no purity thee and thou, I have not heard you use those in a sentence. go ahead, axe me another "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #435,831 by Ashton 8/20/20 6:32:31 PM 8/20/20 6:32:31 PM Reply	(I use 'thee and thou'; I don't confusicate Stuff with Schtuff and I still think doing-so: Sch-ucks The SOUND is--to these ears--still fucking-Grating, whoever makes that SOUND. (And no: there exists no digi-think Algorithm which Can home-in-on all causes of Irritation, 'Granularly') (Another word killed: 'Incredible'--used to mean the-exact Opposite! GRATES--wherever heard), now: incessantly.. Whittle away at Language--at your peril--ignore Confucius' concluding warning--posted here n-times way-back: Hence it matters above all else--that Language be Correct. (Say something Critical Wrongly) and today a Nuke can be Launched, followed-by ... more precisely This Day: The Menace would launch-in-a-trice; he has Zero-knowledge of what that MEANS. tl;dr: ENUNCIATE! ..and screw the stupid judgmentalism of accent-favoritism.
Post #435,833 by Another Scott 8/20/20 6:50:39 PM 8/20/20 6:50:39 PM Reply	Speaking of which... DeLong has been using thorns in most of his headlines the last couple of weeks. https://www.bradford-delong.com/ Loomis; American Fascism: þis Is þe Real Thing—Noted Hehe. Cheers, Scott.
Post #435,836 by Ashton 8/20/20 8:45:32 PM 8/22/20 12:41:47 AM Reply	Heh! never þought I Be prescient.. but feels nice ever to be a þorn ..in any Repoþ's jelloware :-) Have to hit DeLong, for good stabs at Scale&Relativity from authentic Histpries. Pity that the vox pop would be so unable to follow; it's togh realizing that, for recognizing 'perspicuit' you Are an outler Query: have you tuned in Amanpour, yet? fwiw Methinks she's channeleing Edward R. Murrow and perhaps (the best of past iconic-Commentators) ... reliably. She + truly virtuoso cohorts waste nary a syllable; her body-language reflects via intellect+emotion: and offers nuance to the Big-questions of ilk, say "just How Bad Is ___?" Menaces, local and worldwide, ever tempering her syntax to ..not pissing off an obvious-Idiot that she even implies, "you're an Idiot". aka I go there first, just to save the time of deciding which next alternates can supply more detail than an hour can. Noted also: the Replies to many a bombshell NYT blurb have offered up some incisive, discerning quotables. Sentience is where you find it (but CNN not so much). Carrion ..it ripens hourly now, becoming ever denser in that microphone-->W.H sewer effluence complex. Edited by Ashton Aug. 22, 2020, 12:41:47 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #435,844 by Another Scott 8/20/20 11:27:50 PM 8/20/20 11:27:50 PM Reply	I don't watch much TV of any sort these days. If it's on, it's usually HGTV or similar. I'll have to check her out. I know you've mentioned her interviews many times here. :-) Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #435,874 by Ashton 8/21/20 5:03:57 PM 8/21/20 5:03:57 PM Reply	Just informing is all: no need to proselytize re authentic virtuosi, I wot.:-)

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