Hold on hoss... you say that Safire is writing as a conservative?? That
sounds like name calling to me!

FYI, it's Franken not Frankel.

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:30:11 -0800, "Jonathan Ganz"
said:

And, to Dave... you're right, I really didn't read the article. Why would
I
want
to read an article by the likes of Safire, someone who is not presenting
a
balanced
view.

Perhaps if you read a bit more broadly you would have noticed that Safire
writes two different kinds of articles for the Times. When he writes on
the
op ed page, it's with a definite political point of view, as is
appropriate
for that venue. He and Brooks are the Times's two house conservatives,
just
as Al Hunt is the Journal's house liberal. But his regular column in the
magazine section is "On Language." To the extent it expresses a point of
view at all it's generally not a political point of view at all. Rather
it's
a mildly prescriptivist point of view on matters of language and usage. As
to why you should read those columns? He writes with a marvelous sense of
tongue in cheek humor about language, its use and misuse. One really
should
occasionally read something other than political tracts and diatribes like
the world according to Frankel. Or if that's too much, at least recognize
that such things exist.


Dave
S/V Good Fortune
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