Not P but DFW: of any sort

[Mike Jing]

That's what I thought as well. Thanks, Mark.


On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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