Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:13:14 -0400
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Malapropism of the week
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

mark wrote:
> 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"

Knee-jerk liberals and brain death.

-- Mike B.