Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 21:31:59 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Malapropism of the week
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Eric Jablow wrote:
> On May 28, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Walter Miles wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Soviet-era "slow schizophrenia".

Faux News and the "tea party"

mark
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