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Dear milum: of course I know that language will never be controlled by the logicians. However,
I think that editors are obligated to find ways of avoiding such egregious errors. Luckily, I am
not an editor and so don't have to know what he/she should have said.


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It sounds funny.

The hell with it.


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Dear Faldage: Safire seems to have promulgated more than one Law. To which of them
do you refer?


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To which of them do you refer?

If it sounds funny, the hell with it.


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Regrettably all my improvements sounded worse than the phrase I found fault with.


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Me too. I think the sound of "least worst" is bad and the meaning is obfuscated. Maybe "least worst" is the "badest" misuse of a superlative I've ever heard. Or maybe "badest" is.

Which do you think is the least worst?




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"badest"

Of course you do mean "baddest" do you not? If we're making up words, the *least we can do is spell them correctly!


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Leased wurst would be rented sausage, right?


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If we're making up words

Of course "we" didn't make this one up did "we"? I know, because, I've met the baddest dude around and I know he was the baddest because he told me he was. Seemed proud of it, too, he did.


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Leased wurst would be rented sausage, right?

Has it come to this Whit, stealing Ted's lines. And one of his besttest ones too.

And dear Faldage, please go tell that egofart (pronounced EGO-fert) dude that you know who thinks he's the baddest, that we "we's" of the world think that he's the worstest, and, for the moment, our numbers are legion.




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