Thursday, May 08, 2008

What Does Byron Know?

Classifying The Other Guy's Stuff

clap·trap n.
Pretentious, insincere, or empty language: "I hate ... that air/Of claptrap, which your recent poets prize" Byron.

This esoteric conceit clumsily conceived by Ron Southern at 5:28 PM
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  1. Ron Southern5/08/2008 8:21 PM

    I wonder if the opposite of claptrap may be "snobbishness"?

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