Not P but DFW: of any sort

[Mark Kohut]

I think it modifies “and snobbery and overt smugness” …coming after that
one “and “ and being vague and general. I.e snobbery and smugness are.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's review of Bryan
> Garner's *A Dictionary of Modern American Usage*:
>
> The hard-line Descriptivists, for all their calm scientism and avowed
> preference for fact over value, rely mostly on rhetorical pathos, the
> visceral emotional Appeal. As mentioned, the relevant emotions here are
> Sixtiesish in origin and leftist in temperament—an antipathy for
> conventional Authority and elitist put-downs and uptight restrictions and
> casuistries and androcaucasian bias and snobbery and overt smugness *of any
> sort* … i.e., for the very attitudes embodied in the prim glare of the
> grammarian and the languid honk of Buckley-type elites, which happen to be
> the two most visible species of SNOOT still around.
>
> Does the phrase "of any sort" modify the entire list of attitudes or only
> part of it? If only part of it, which part?
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