Christopher Green wrote re Richard Morrison's piece in the London Times
(December 22):
What a funchity old grouch.
Ah, well. They say that Christmas time is liable to produce family
squabbles, and TIPS is obviously no exception. So Ill be blunt. Dear
Christopher, please dont use words like
Allen Esterson wrote:
Dear
Christopher, please dont use words like funchity which is in neither
my
Chambers nor my Oxford Concise dictionaries.
Allow me to define: funchity. n. grumpily old-fashioned, out of touch.
First,
it is not a *Timess* rant. It is an article in the Times by
Richard
Christopher wrote:
I won't mention that you miswrote Bertrand Russell's name...
That's ironic, because yesterday I corrected a draft article (tranlated
from Swedish) that someone sent me because the writer had spelt the
self-same Russell with one 'l'!
Perhaps my tone was harsher than it
Christopher D. Green wrote:
Allen Esterson wrote:
Dear
Christopher, please dont use words like funchity which is in neither
my Chambers nor my Oxford Concise dictionaries.
Allow me to define: funchity. n. grumpily old-fashioned, out of touch.
Of course, that would be wrong. It is an
And for completeness, here's the second London Times piece, an occasional
article by the paper's classical music correspondent.
God save our merry, gentlemen
Richard Morrison
As the notion of Christmas itself as a Christian festival is all but
expunged, I do grieve for our ever-receding heritage
Annette has reminded me that London Times articles are not available
online outside the UK without a subscription, so here is the first article
cited above. It's on the op-ed page, and is by Mick Hume, editor of
spiked-online www.spiked-online.com
London Times December 22, 2003
These meanies
What a funchity old grouch. Apprently someone who didn't successfully
make the transition out of the 1970s? Newsflash! We don't live in an
overwhelmingly Christian society anymore. The fact that we did 20 or 50
or 100 years ago is relatively immaterial. Especially funny is how the
author tries
Delightful! With that nasty
little edge that makes life worth living. :-)
The music is a nice surreal touch too.
A sure cure for Xmas diabetes.
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3J 1P3
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 416-736-5115 ext.
