Margaret Soltan of George Washington University
knows that her concern with mixed metaphors in public settings is tedious and pathetic, but she cannot help herself. Like many English professors, part of her is a petty bitter grammarian…
She goes on (indeed she does, irresistibly so!)
You do not make an argument by smearing cliches over a screen.
She had us at tedious and pathetic.
A premier cru taste in prose and its targets.
A keeper.
Via Betsy's Page
Update:
There's more!
the cowardly emotivizing of the university
Send sandwiches and a flask. We'll be in her archives for the foreseeable future.
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