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December 30, 2005

Saf in a snit about pre

William Safire is agitated by the use of prefixes as stand-alone words, as in "super" and "intro." Personally, I have noticed that when my children say "Thanks," I am likely to respond "Welc." For no particular reason.

BTW, Safire's agitation is actually a pretext (thin) for a not-very-fresh rant about the meta-ing of culture. [Thanks to David Isenberg for the link.]

[Tags: meta WilliamSafire language culture Postmodernism]

Posted by D. Weinberger at December 30, 2005 09:47 AM

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