Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> I personal fave here is to use words the insultee does not understand. It's
> amazing how annoyed people can get at being called "you neo-scholastic
> Eleatic!". Somewhy they always assume the worst.
It's amazing the response a speaker can get by accusing his audience of
being habitual and public masticators.

And then there's Jubal Harshaw, who tells a politician that he (Harshaw)
"is a senior philosophunculist on active duty", and inquires indignantly,
"Haven't you studied amphigory?"

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