Why don't people like lisp?

[Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters]

|Kenny Tilton <ktilton at nyc.rr.com> writes:
|> what is sophistry?

Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <frodef at cs.uit.no> wrote previously:
|The story goes that in ancient Greece the sophists were recognized
|experts on public speaking, who took pride in being able to sway their
|audience into any point of view they liked...

This is a good description of the word.  But I think Kenny, in this
case, was making a rather nice joke:  Being sophistical by pretending
not to know the word... a slightly self-deprecating self-reference.

If so, I give him many positive points for the meta-discourse.

Yours, Lulu...

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