{"id":5254,"date":"2017-09-09T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T10:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/09\/find-the-linguistic-howler\/"},"modified":"2017-09-09T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T10:43:25","slug":"find-the-linguistic-howler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/09\/find-the-linguistic-howler\/","title":{"rendered":"Find the Linguistic Howler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For all his insights about the pathologies of the modern left, Mark Lilla has not divested himself of the most ubiquitous intellectual quirk of today\u2019s establishment liberal: He equivocates the common good with the electoral success of the Democratic Party. Lilla is not trying to convince leftists that they stand to learn anything from voters in Appalachian West Virginia or rural Missouri. He\u2019s just trying to convince them to be able to stand their presence long enough to win their votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

"But it's a good article, Bill, and the author is obviously a youngster; why seize on a linguistic peccadillo while ignoring the content of his piece?"<\/span><\/p>\n

Because I'm the nastiest, surliest, prickliest, language Nazi north of the Rio Grande and west of the Pecos. I love language even more than I hate libruls.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/span><\/p>\n

Dave Bagwill comments: <\/span><\/p>\n

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J'accuse<\/em> you of being a glossophile!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Guilty as charged!  But I plead innocent of graphomania:<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>"Graphomania inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. An elevated level of general well-being, which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities;<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. A high degree of social atomization and, as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals;<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life. (From this point of view, it seems to me symptomatic that in France, where practically nothing happens, the percentage of writers is twenty-one times higher than in Israel)."<\/span>\n
    \u2014\u2009Milan Kundera<\/a>, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting<\/a>, 1978<\/cite><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For all his insights about the pathologies of the modern left, Mark Lilla has not divested himself of the most ubiquitous intellectual quirk of today\u2019s establishment liberal: He equivocates the common good with the electoral success of the Democratic Party. Lilla is not trying to convince leftists that they stand to learn anything from voters … Continue reading “Find the Linguistic Howler”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}