[lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background

[Carrol Cox]

The discussion on this thread has gone off the tracks some, regrettable
since _all_ parties to it are, fundamentally, friends. To be more
specific, it has not in the least changed my high estimation of shag and
most of her posts. Without  her the list would lose half its attraction
for me. But this time she has picked up a book of no intellectual worth
(in fact shag writes a dozen posts a month with more content than
Kennelly could get into 10 books). Moreover, I think she (Kennelly is a
liar, that she has spread pure scuttlebutt as though it had some
legitimate source. This happens to everyone at times; they fall for some
book that is not worthy of them. Kennelly announces that language is not
a thing; indeed it is not. There is no evidence that Kennelly knows what
it is or what it would actually mean to speak of its "evolution." In a
freshman theme that would be marked as "sloppy diction."

Carrol