I never watch shows like this -- or many other TV shows for that matter (I watch movies and baseball) -- but if I needed a reason not to watch this one, this would serve.
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Not to be confused ...
... with perspicuous: Christiane Amanpour ABC | Founding Father Constitution | Video | Mediaite.
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Ditto. It's a 7th grade vocabulary word, but clearly ABC thought it was hot stuff for using it.
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"Amanpour is the idiot here. 'Perspicacious' means 'able to see accurately or insightfully into the future.' Franklin would not be accurately described as perspicacious just because he wished he could be preserved in a vat of Madeira wine to see how the Constitution worked out in 200 years. What accurate or insightful observation is he making? None. If he had predicted some development in Constitutional interpretation which then came true much later, then he might be described as having made a perspicacious remark. Amanpour used the word because she thought it sounded high-falutin’. She does not seem to know the accurate meaning or correct usage of the word. She’s a typical liberal – or radical – intellectual poseur. Look it up if you must.
'Poseur' means 'pretender' or, more frankly, 'fool'.
Who knew ABC News was television's answer to the definition footnotes contained within L. Ron Hubbard's literature? I find this both sad and hilarious. George Carlin was thinking small time when he considered seven words that you can't say on television. Who knew that it extended into 70,000 words? Me talk pidgin to get on teevee! Lulz!
ReplyDeleteSo typical liberals, or radicals, are stupid and don't know how to use words?
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What a perspicacious comment!
C'mon.
Careful, folks, lest the moving finger write itself to death on the breath fogging the mirror. . . .
I'm kind of with you on this, Art. Amanpour may be a fool, but I remember years ago meeting some young conservatives who were all hell-bent on mimicking William Buckley's vocabulary (one often sees the same thing with Mencken aficionados). So the political connection seems tenuous.
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