ManicDDaily

I’m afraid that my previous post re Rick Santorum and the use of ponderous nouns was somewhat confusing.  I was constrained by the fact that I was trying to play a game of writing something in 55 words.

I’m not really critical of Santorum’s grammar.  I myself make mistakes all the time, and would be hard put to speak publicly.

My concern had more to do with his grandiosity.  (And disconnection.)

Santorum throws out grandiose concepts and notions and words  without applying them in any truly sensible way to the facts at hand.

Using a noun “courage” to describe himself–rather than, let’s say, the adjective “courageous”–was to me another example of  his use of a high-flown concept without tying it down to the the object, fact, person, question at hand.

I admit that my point was a bit subtle.  But somehow that whole moment in the debate has been niggling at me.

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