[Ads-l] Freudian hypernegation?

[Mark Mandel]

A favorite word of his for describing himself and his "accomplishments".

MAM


On Thu, Oct 3, 2019, 1:01 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> And who describes a conversation, emphatically and repeatedly (even
> flamboyantly) as "perfect"?
>
> Maybe "perfect" means "so perfectly phrased as not to be incriminating"?
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:23 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Or just ungrammaticality. I doubt that that individual is even aware of
> the
> > concept of double (or more-uple) negation.
> >
> > MAM
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019, 11:46 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/politics/trump-china-bidens.html
> > >
> > > Mr. Trump has defended his conversation with Mr. Zelensky as “perfect”
> > > even after a rough transcript of the call was released that showed him
> > > seeking help from Ukraine in investigating the Bidens. And he doubled
> > down
> > > on his request on Thursday.
> > >
> > > “I would say that President Zelensky, if it were me, I would recommend
> > > that they start an investigation into the Bidens,” Mr. Trump said.
> > “Because
> > > nobody has any doubt that they weren’t crooked.”
> > >
> > > I certainly have no such doubt.
> > >
> > > LH
>

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