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Reply Wed 2 Jul, 2014 02:44 am
1) will dole out? Who dole out what?
2) misrepresentation morsels? What does it mean?
3) folding women’s rights? Does it mean "ignoring women's rights"?


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It will have utility to the legion of Hillary haters who will examine with an electron microscope her waterproof 33-page treatment of the tragic incident at Benghazi and will dole out to the talk show mavens of misrepresentation morsels of her (admirable and imaginative) work of folding women’s rights and world health into the everyday work of diplomacy — indisputable proof, they will say, of her hopeless America-hating, minority-loving, left-wing orientation. Her allies, particularly in the Democratic Party, will seize on her loyalty to the president, though that is a rapidly diminishing asset.
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Reply Wed 2 Jul, 2014 08:33 am
@oristarA,
Quote:
1) will dole out? Who dole out what?


Will give. Who is the grammatical subject of the sentence?

2. Small lies, half truths, misrepresentations.

3. Including women's rights with ... .
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Reply Wed 2 Jul, 2014 08:44 am
@JTT,
JTT wrote:

Quote:
1) will dole out? Who dole out what?


Will give. Who is the grammatical subject of the sentence?

2. Small lies, half truths, misrepresentations.

3. Including women's rights with ... .


Thanks.
What is "mavens/experts of misrepresentation"?
JTT
 
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Reply Wed 2 Jul, 2014 08:51 am
@oristarA,

What is "mavens/experts of misrepresentation"?

Absolutely, Ori.

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http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html

Nor was there any English Language Constitutional Conference at the beginning of time. The legislators of "correct English," in fact, are an informal network of copy-editors, dictionary usage panelists, style manual writers, English teachers, essayists, and pundits. Their authority, they claim, comes from their dedication to implementing standards that have served the language well in the past, especially in the prose of its finest writers, and that maximize its clarity, logic, consistency, elegance, precision, stability, and expressive range. William Safire, who writes the weekly column "On Language" for the [New York Times Magazine], calls himself a "language maven," from the Yiddish word meaning expert, and this gives us a convenient label for the entire group.

To whom I say: Maven, shmaven! [Kibbitzers] and [nudniks] is more like it. For here are the remarkable facts. Most of the prescriptive rules of the language mavens make no sense on any level. They are bits of folklore that originated for screwball reasons several hundred years ago and have perpetuated themselves ever since. For as long as they have existed, speakers have flouted them, spawning identical plaints about the imminent decline of the language century after century. All the best writers in English have been among the flagrant flouters. The rules conform neither to logic nor tradition, and if they were ever followed they would force writers into fuzzy, clumsy, wordy, ambiguous, incomprehensible prose, in which certain thoughts are not expressible at all. Indeed, most of the "ignorant errors" these rules are supposed to correct display an elegant logic and an acute sensitivity to the grammatical texture of the language, to which the mavens are oblivious.
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