File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 770


Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:50:36 +0100
From: "Joerg T. Gruel" <jtg-AT-owl-online.de>
Subject: PLC: Mot du Jour




Where has that pleasant habit of the "Mot du Jour" gone recently? Is it already deprecated by those tiresome "Mod/Pod du Jour" turlupinades octroyed on us by that sinister trinity of boy scout derision sycophants?

While I sat pondering hard on the nature of our list, and on that of our fellow list, and its metalist, as well as on the nature of Bad Writing, there came fluttering around the  word "cant", which looks well suited for a November monday's mot. My utterly insufficient Langenscheidt has:

  1. Insincere talk implying piety; hypocrisy.
  2. Special talk, words, used by a particular class of people: thieves' ~.

Then what is the difference to "jargon", or "Gerede"?  could any group avoid falling into that trap? or is it a trap at all, and for whom? What would comrade Stalin think of it? Does it give us a clue to bad writing?

Nietzsche, whose  jokes had often something of the embarrassing , wouldn't spare us the very silly remark: "Kant: cant".

It's late on the old continent, I've thrown the ball, and go to sleep.

Cheers,

Joerg



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Where has that pleasant habit of the "Mot du Jour" gone recently? Is it already deprecated by those tiresome "Mod/Pod du Jour" turlupinades octroyed on us by that sinister trinity of boy scout derision sycophants?

While I sat pondering hard on the nature of our list, and on that of our fellow list, and its metalist, as well as on the nature of Bad Writing, there came fluttering around the  word "cant", which looks well suited for a November monday's mot. My utterly insufficient Langenscheidt has:

  1. Insincere talk implying piety; hypocrisy.
  2. Special talk, words, used by a particular class of people: thieves' ~.
Then what is the difference to "jargon", or "Gerede"?  could any group avoid falling into that trap? or is it a trap at all, and for whom? What would comrade Stalin think of it? Does it give us a clue to bad writing?

Nietzsche, whose  jokes had often something of the embarrassing , wouldn't spare us the very silly remark: "Kant: cant".

It's late on the old continent, I've thrown the ball, and go to sleep.

Cheers,

Joerg
 
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