Marginal Utility: Paraphrase of the Day

Paraphrase of the Day

by Tom Bozzo

From the NYT article on the latest prewar memo to leak out of the UK:

Mr. Bush predicted that it was "unlikely there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups."

What's the chance that Bush, who has difficulty using the words "Federal Reserve" extemporaneously, actually said "internecine"? (*)

Mr. Blair agreed with that assessment.

A-plus to both of them for their forecasting skills. Wankers.

(*) Unless it was his Tetrasyllabic Word of the Day.

// posted by Tom Bozzo @ 5:23 PM

Comments:

And is it just me, or are there possibly three redundancies in their lame-ass horoscopular prediction?

# posted by

Xtin : Mon Mar 27, 07:11:00 PM

It isn't just you. It would have been sufficient to have written, "...internecine warfare."

# posted by

Tom Bozzo : Mon Mar 27, 08:07:00 PM

He probably thought "internecine" meant "between medical trainees," and hence that the last clause was necessary.

# posted by

Unknown : Tue Mar 28, 08:59:00 AM