William Safire, Nixon Speech Writer and Linguist, Dead at 79
William Safire may the the reason I started reading the New York Times Editorial Page in high school. Despite this, I still tend to mix my modifiers.
William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury of articles on language, died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. on Sunday. He was 79.
5 comments:
Oughn't we hate him since he was in some way related to Nixon?
Like how we hate Peggy Noonan?
Peggy Noonan is clearly a moron - but she had nothing to do with Nixon. She wrote for Ronny and The Slightly Better Bush.
Nixon is one of my favorite presidents. He was a slime ball, but he had style.
So, No. We should love him because he is the king of modern word nerds.
For Example: Eschew dialect, irregardless.
or this Vogue-Word Watch
"Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate; and never where it isn't."
heheheehehehe
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