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Today's Words of Wisdom...
...come, of course, from ComicsCurmudgeon.com, and refer to the following panel from a Gil Thorp strip:
Says one of the Curmudgeon's many brilliant readers:
"Brick in GT talks like a stupid person expects smart people to talk. Dear Mr. Rubin: AutoThesaurus is never a good idea." —Kaliflower
No larger point here. But "talks like a stupid person expects smart people to talk" is a concept I've been trying to put into exact words for a long time, and Kaliflower has rendered it in precise terms. Or maybe that should be succinct, concise and unprolix terms.
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