Guy Dixon profiles New Yorker Sarah Vowell upon the occasion of the publication of her latest tome, The Wordy Shipmates, in Canada's National Newspaper, The Globe and Mail.
One or two nagging points this piece neither considers nor addresses, IMO: What does "saintification" mean? Did I miss a step in either the descriptive or the prescriptive linguistic process? Additionally, didn't I just read a couple of paragraphs from John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Inaugural Address that always slay me? Who fought on the beaches; who fought on the shores, then? And, that other guy, what's his name, you know, the one who had a dream? [/sarcasm]
No comments:
Post a Comment