Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!wfi From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Critics and SF Message-ID: <363@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 10:27:28 EDT Article-I.D.: rti-sel.363 Posted: Wed Aug 21 10:27:28 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:06:01 EDT References: <3206@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <> <212@proper.UUCP> Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Distribution: net Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 19 Summary: In article <212@proper.UUCP> judith@proper.UUCP (judith) writes: > I imagine the word "intellectual" has been used as pejorative slang for >"intellectual" by most speakers of American ever since it became a noun... > What real variety has our native anti-egghead >invective displayed in the last 50 years (aside from "nattering nabobs of >negativism," of course! :-)? Ah, yes, where is Spiro T. now that we need him? :-) I tried coming up with pejorative slang for "intellectual" other than "egghead," and the best I could do was: "S/He's a real brain." [said with a mixture of envy and contempt] I suspect I credited the anti-egghead crowd with a bit more creativity than I should have. :-) -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly