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Monday, April 9, 2007

Existential language columnists

In case anyone missed it, William Safire caught up with our own Jan Freeman, on the trendy new use of "existential" in terror-talk, in his column yesterday.

(Jan's take, which Safire appropriately cites and quotes, is here.)

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Je ne comprends pas. What is this "existential threat," of which you speak?
Posted by Christopher Shea at 11:16 AM
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