NYT: Zombie Nouns

[Jonathan Lighter]

How retro.

Nowadays the bigger threat isn't from pomposity (which most people won't
even read anymore: too hard!!). It's from equi-vo-cation (I think that's
how they say it) an' plain-talkin' lies that any fool can understand.

JL

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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