Birth of a nova--not?

[Jonathan Lighter]

But now, with "truthiness," you don't have to !

  JL

Matthew Gordon <gordonmj at MISSOURI.EDU> wrote:
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I doubt that 'verisimilitude' is age-graded. It ain't no 'icebox'.

Still, thanks for the excellent example of linguistic Chicken-Littlism. When
I parody it in class it might go something like "In my day, we used walk 10
miles through 3 feet of snow to get to the library and learn important words
like 'verisimilitude'..."

-Matt



On 1/19/06 1:51 PM, "Jonathan Lighter" wrote:

> Easy to pronounce - and spell and remember ! Like a cool new brand name !
> Especially when few people under forty have ever even heard the word
> "verisimilitude" ! And did I mention easier to recognize in writing ? And
> funnier ?
>
> Oh, gosh, the future is soooo rosy !
>
> JL
>
>

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