Laughing Greer
Germaine Greer, busted for talking bollocks, whines about it at length in the Guardian.Poor Ms Greer! In a hole created by her pretentious blather, she reaches for her spade.
Ms Greer suggests that no one educated would use "somewhat". This is ridiculous. "Somewhat" is a perfectly ordinary word. It does not mean the same as "rather", quite.
Ms Greer, having scoffed at the awarders for not googling the phrase "unsynthesised manifold", then claims that "most reasonably educated Guardian readers" would have recognised it.
Sadly not. Most reasonably educated readers know that the manifold is the manifold. It is only rarely called the "unsynthesised manifold" because it is a manifold of unsynthesised representations, not an unsynthesised thing itself.
Ms Greer does not explain though why she did not write that art "stands out" from the manifold. We know why. Ms Greer thinks it clever to write "clever" and is unaware, sadly both for her and for anyone who struggles through her turgid prose, that it is cleverer by far to write so that readers may easily understand you.
posted by Dr Zen @ 3:04 pm
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