Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:02:35 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Malapropism of the week
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> 6/1/2010 11:11 PM >>>
>Walter Miles wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Don't know about strongly ideological, but any STD caught in the =
manner
>that gives them their name should qualify for weakly ideological.  =
Those
>with the abstinence ideology and the "virgin until marriage, don't =
ever
>cheat, 'till death do us part" ideology don't get them that way.  Can
>still get them in some cases from blood transfusions though.  And door
>knobs.

Ah, that must explain the Victorian accusation of "You sir are a cad! A =
knave! A door knober!"

mjw