From: Walter Miles <waltmiles at comcast.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 21:57:27 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Malapropism of the week
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Hello Madeleine

On 05/28/10, Madeleine Yeh wrote:
>    What word should have been used in this sentence?  A
> disease of unknown cause is called idiopathic.

In our house you hear a lot of "idiopathic" and "etiology," but I really
like the idea of strongly ideological diseases.  Can't think of any good
ones off hand.  The obvious thing is to name the political philosophy or
party you favor least followed by a mental illness or condition of
developmental delay.  There must be something better than that.

> On Thu, 27 May 2010 20:44:22 -0400 (EDT)
>   "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>> "There are diseases with unknown ideology."

Be seeing you,
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