[Ads-l] RES: QOTY candidate

[Jonathan Lighter]

He's done the third-person thing since 2016 at least.

Dubbed "Faustian illeism" here many years ago, since Marlowe's Faust uses
it - but so does Shakespeare's Joan of Arc (1 Henry VI).

JL

On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 1:01 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Ok, “independent” “corroboration” of the opinion  So it must be true. But
> I also liked his third-person self reference.
>
> LH
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Oct 10, 2024, at 7:22 AM, David Daniel <dad at coarsecourses.com> wrote:
> >
> > -----Mensagem original-----
> > De: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] Em nome de
> > Stanton McCandlish
> > Enviada em: quinta-feira, 10 de outubro de 2024 00:20
> > Para: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Assunto: Re: QOTY candidate
> >
> >
> >
> > For a Trump QotY, I would think it'd have to be the one from the debate,
> > about immigrants eating our cats and dogs. It's the nuttiest thing a
> > politician has said since "Jewish space lasers".
> >
> > It may be nutty, but it's not new. The following is from the New York
> Times,
> > August 9, 1982, Section A, page 14.
> > "Every so often a news report reminds us that sizable communities of
> Vietnam
> > War refugees now in America brought with them customs that war with
> American
> > law.
> > In 1980 Southeast Asian refugees were reported poaching and eating
> > squirrels, ducks and dogs in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
> > With their old world hunting and trapping skills, they were attempting to
> > carry on the way of life they had known, in a place they did not know.
> > In 1981, a similar problem confounded wildlife authorities in Utah.
> > Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees were poaching deer,
> porcupines,
> > skunks, doves, woodpeckers, robins, baby birds, duck eggs and fish.
> > Officials translated state game laws into the refugee languages and even
> put
> > on slide shows, to no avail.
> > Now comes news from Seattle that Laotian Hmong refugees have been growing
> > opium poppies in their vegetable gardens. Someone asked the police to
> > identify the bright red flowers. Seattle police found more than 4000
> Papaver
> > somniferum.
> > Vietnam remains with us, in odd and unpredicted ways."
> >
> > The same page has a Times opinion piece about a senate bill to crack
> down on
> > illegal immigration and cap legal immigration. When I lived in San
> Francisco
> > in the late 80s the running joke/rumor was that park pigeons had been
> > disappearing ever since the arrival of Southeast Asian refugees. Anyway,
> US
> > politicians accusing immigrants of varied un-American behavior to rouse
> the
> > rabble against them goes back at least to the 19th century.
> > DAD
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