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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BirdDog who wrote (13506)	12/10/2001 5:52:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

BD, I think Bilow was making a little joke. A pun on dielectric [note correct spelling, not dialectric] and dialectic dictionary.com which I thought was quite witty. <I didn't want to be a knit picker. Oh...and BTW.... It's dialectric...not dialectic. > Also, "knit picker"? If that's a joke, I don't get it. A nitpicker is somebody picking the nits out of hairy mammalian buddies, or, nowadays, concerned with finding fault with insignificant details. dictionary.com Speaking of which, I wish to pick a nit with that badly-edited Foreign Affairs article which used 'disinterested' where they meant 'uninterested', in an otherwise excellent effort. I guess that's another useful word which we can kiss goodbye to because it's an almost universal mistake. Will Tekuboi-san rise to the bait? Leaving no nit unpicked, Mq