Re: Re: † † † Fwd: Comment for the ADS Web =?UTF-8?Q?mast

[Mark A Mandel]

(BTW, I see this subject line as:

        [UTF-8] Re: {1} {1} {1} Re: {2} [UTF-8] {2}
        {2} Fwd: Comment for the ADS Web[UTF-8] master

where
        {1} =   NOT-SIGN DAGGER
        {2} =   BLOB CARET INVERTED-QUESTION-MARK DAGGER
        BLOB represents a rectangle that means "I don't have a
representation for this character".

The line ends immediately after "mast". Has somebody been using Word
punctuation in the subject line?)

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

#I didn't mean these questions to be merely rhetorical, no--I agree with
#Peter. Consider:
#
#"Apparently, as soon as the power is restored, our telephone and
#computer connections will also be restored.I will continue to work on
#this situation. Hopefully, we may be able to have some connectivity by
#tomorrow."
#
#--Memo received today from the Director, First-Year Writing Program, Duke
#University.
#
#I only have one dictionary with me on vacation, and it has an entry for
#CONNECTIVITY in this sense, so I guess it has been around for a while--but
#perhaps not very long, I'd guess. Was the person who coined this term any
#less of a mangler than Bush was with his "embetterment"?

You can say that about any single new word. But where's the line between
creating a new word and speaking incomprehensible gobbledygook composed
entirely of new words? Bush certainly isn't doing the latter, but the
frequency with which he comes out with malapropisms and distortions is
IMHO pretty good grounds for inferring he's not being constructively
creative.

-- Mark A. Mandel