[GCFL-discuss] A Quote for Today

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

Actually, we just like arguing. We're ornery older people who enjoy
thinking we are right and proving someone else wrong. (We both have
better motivations than that, but this kind of stuff... that's all it
is.) You're right about Safire, his columns are awfully interesting for a
man who worked in Richard Nixon's White House. Even if he didn't, they
would still be interesting. I'll have to pass for now on Lederer, I have
a backlog of books I haven't finished or started. I'm on Kenneth
Roberts's Northwest Passage and a recent book called Becoming Eichmann
(theme obvious), and I got these DVD's for Christmas that I can't find
time to watch either: The Tudors, first season, Flags of Our Fathers,
Sands of Iwo Jima, and John Adams -- oh, and I have the book too, I
haven't read that yet either. But thanks for the suggestions.

Siarlys

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:09:13 -0800 (PST) "Discussion of the Good, Clean
Funnies List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:
Jeanene and Siarlys, 
 
You both seem to be interested in words and their usage. I recommend your
reading Richard Lederer's books just for the fun of it. I attended a
lecture by him back in 1997, split my sides laughing, and bought five of
his books on the spot! 
 
William Safire's "On Language" columns in the NY Times are great reading,
too. 
 
Kay


--- On Tue, 12/30/08, gcfl-discuss-request at gcfl.net
<gcfl-discuss-request at gcfl.net> wrote:

Funny. That is pretty close to the definition of "deviant" in The
American Century Dictionary: " (adj) deviating from what is normal. The
-ed ending usually indicates a verb form, such as remembered (past tense
verb, not adjective), or called, or ended, or prepared. But the
dictionary doesn't have "deviated" at all. These verb forms can become a
kind of verbal adjective, as in "remembered garden" or "cleft palette."
But then you are back to the same meaning as "deviant," the one I found
in the dictionary.

Siarlys

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:55:34 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:
No. I meant deviated.  It means 
adjective
characterized by deviation or departure from an accepted norm or
standard, as of behavior.

Jeanene
 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:13 AM
Subject: [GCFL-discuss] a quote for today


"There is always room at the top -- after the investigation."  -Oliver
Herford, American Author 1863-1935
 
I found this very funny.  Do I have a deviated sense of humor?
Jeanene



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