--On Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:49 PM -0500 budge <budge at el-pleasant.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 at 2:00am Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote:
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> > nattering nabob of negativity
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> 'negativism'
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> safire would never use such poor grammar.
Then Safire gets misquoted a lot. In any event, I believe both are grammatically correct, though perhaps 'negativism' is the better word choice within the context of the rest of the sentence.
-- Luke