"Taylor Kingston" wrote in message
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On Nov 18, 10:26 am, "Chess One" wrote:

He also does not understand what niceties are, and indeed, if you can
stack
them as you can presumably do so precisely with 'credentials.'

Then, to pass to the remains of the sentences, or rather pass over
reference
to Shakespeare and for some reason, the apparently equitably credenced
Hemingway, since otherwise is he some polar reference to compass the
scene[?], to that 'leaden ineptitude', the very crux of the expression.
It
is a fair metaphor, lead... to [not] gold, but the 'ineptness' has to
reference their prose [subject] albeit coming in in last place; which his
imperfect alchemy transmutes, almost, to an unstated though intermediary
substance, wood?

Oh my Lord, our Phil presumes to pontificate on writing skills.
Should this trend continue, we can expect to see snails as coaches to
NFL wide receivers, penguins as flying instructors, and Sam Sloan as
Secretary of the Treasury.

ERIC JOHNSON AWARD?

And mixed matadors, Mr. Malaprop? You see, nicety references what is precise
in any topic, and your aspersions are tolerably vague, as usual, [which you
snipped, as usual] and here we got snails, coaches, wide receivers, penguins
and flying instructors as well as ... all in one sentence.

Eric could scarcely do better, except he would have mentioned the boy
scouts, for sure.

Maybe you can award the Southern Californian version, leaving him the entire
east coast?

At least you did not challenge Ted Hughes' prose, who really did take the
lead out of wooden poesy. But you did divert the issue of how you wrote to
whom, and with what intent, which I think you are still shy of an answer,
nevermind you are no Hemingway, of whom, it must be at least admitted, had
the courage of his [own] convictions.

Did you have any at all? Or is it all about Winter's or Nunn's or, actually,
to any point of your own that you have managed, sans Shakespeare, and in the
all too common tongue, managed to identify these past 8 years?

Phil Innes

PS: I notice that Microsoft's spell checker does not admit malaprop, only
malapropism and the even rarer malapropos. Heuch!