assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")

[Jonathan Lighter]

There's a story, possibly true, that a when reporter went to interview Ezra Pound not too long before his death, Pound simply remained silent.  Exasperated, the reporter asked the old geek, "Mr. Pound, why won't you answer any of my questions?"

With a heart-warming twinkle in his eye, the admired poet-bigot smiled and said with a certain emphasis,

                                             "Words no good."


Now that I'm becoming an old geek, darned if there aren't times when I share old Ezra's point of view.

JL

Robert Wachal <robert-wachal at UIOWA.EDU> wrote:
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When it comes to disliking certain words, does anyone else dislike
'gravitas' and think it pompous? And how about 'absent' as a preposition?


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