Re: RAT Politics and Theatre

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

> Difference being that our President believes the
> word exists prior to his 
> usage of it.  Lord knows in our world of evolving
> lexicon, no word should 
> ever function as its own ostensible definition.  And
> God forbid a RAT should 
> fuck with language.
> 
> I agree it sounds a bit like "strategery", but I was
> taking the use in a far 
> different context of e-mail (or should I say
> electronic mail) versus that of 
> an alleged political figurehead.
>

Sounds a bit like special pleading to me. 

My objection is NOT that "problematize" isn't
currently in the lexicon.  My objection is that it's
an awkward, ugly, unneccesary addition to it; and that
the context of its use was probably quite similar to
Bush's malapropism's: overcompensation for
intellectual insecurity.  ("I'll just add a couple
more of them syllaberries, and I'll sound all smart
and stuff.")

God forbid I should hold a RAT to any aesthetic
standard of clarity... or should I say
non-obfuscation?


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