"last stitch effort"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 24, 2004, at 1:46 PM, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

>> You mean famously evil permissive LIBERAL *linguist* (makes snarling
>> so much easier for many)
>>
>> arnold, famously evil permissive *linguist* (snarl when you say that!)

"liberal" is understood.  if you pronounce it, it gets all the snarly
emphasis, so the epithet "linguist" is backgrounded and loses its
punch.

arnold