"rude and inappropriate"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Here's someone who even condemns the Iraq invasion as "rude and inappropriate": http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/msg/f1c44b0c1998aa0d?hl=en&

  Clearly he's not a native speaker of English; that to me makes it especially noteworthy that his achieved fluency includes such a tiny vocabulary of opprobrium.

  JL


  Alison Murie <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> wrote:
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Jonathan writes:
>This may be an important development in the evolution of Inglish (or maybe
>>Newspeak, hard to tell) by infantilization ("Don't make those noises,
>little >Sluggo ! They're _totally_ rude and inappropriate !")

> JL
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Oh, ain't it the truth? The invasion of "inappropriate" into *the* most
inappropriate places. Where is the Mikado when we need him? Let the
punishment fit the crime! (Or was it the Lord High Executioner?)
AM

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