Wed 19 Nov 2008
I was reading this blog entry from Dick Cavett about Palin’s abuse of language:
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em
It mostly made me feel ill, but I really liked the postscript, which introduced me to the word `Lagniappe’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagniappe
Fun!
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November 19th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Along the same lines, this article from The New Yorker was very good, I thought:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/13/081013fa_fact_wood
November 21st, 2008 at 3:16 am
Wow, these are both excellent articles (with an edge of shuddering pain whenever I hit the Palin quotes). Thanks for sharing!