Re: Why Do They Hate Us?
- From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:25:57 -0800
On 19 Dec 2005 09:23:55 -0800, Winfield Hill
<Winfield_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>John Larkin wrote...
>>
>> This guy is trying way too hard to be cute; I assume he was a
>> sportswriter in a previous life.
>>
>> "Thus did Boston become the symbol not only of Frankensteinian
>> genetic dabbling and of academic elitism, but also of hidebound
>> academic sexism, and all at the same time. It's a not
>> inconsiderable achievement."
>>
>> is, you have to admit, about as bad as it gets.
>
> I enjoyed the part about not an inconsiderable achievement. :-)
Add a "not un" bit ahead of any declaration makes it *so* much more
authoritative.
John
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