American English (was Re: [lbo-talk] five pundits in the dock)

[ravi]

At around 1/12/05 4:08 pm, Doug Henwood wrote:
> ravi wrote:
> 
>> Why do these things drive me up the wall?
> 
> Could it have something to do with the postcolonial mind? I think it was
> Rahul Mahajan who, many years ago on the old Spoons Marxism list,
> pointed out that Indian journalists love Brit pundit words like
> "rebarbative" (and isn't "pundit" of Indian origin?).
> 

In my case, the "pedanticism" probably has more to do with having
generations of teachers as ancestors!

	--ravi (self guilty of tortured text here on LBO!)

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