liguistic [sic] showoff
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 15 11:00:39 CDT 2003
I'm not quite sure what David Morris & Dmitri Nabokov mean by
"linguistic showoff."
[VN] can turn all sorts of verbal tricks, to puns, transposition of
words, verbal echoes, monstrous twinning of verbs, or the imitation of
sounds. In these, as in the overweight of local allusions and foreign
expressions, a needless obscurity can be produced by details not brought
out with sufficient clarity but only suggested for the knowledgeable.
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