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… which Potter defines as "to confuse, irritate and depress by the use of foreign words, fictitious or otherwise."http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/opinion/03sun3.html(catching up on the last few days!)
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Nope. Don't see it. There's a certain je ne sais quoi about his weltanschauung that just doesn't sit well with me.
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But Potter's work was something of a leitmotiv for that post-werre yet pre-fin-de-siecle age, don't you think?
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D'accord. He certainly captures the Zeitgeist of la generation perdu.
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you guys sound like a bunch of gangstas...
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I'd say it was just another puis de fantu almerique
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