Marc Riddell wrote:
on 6/19/07 7:48 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Just watch the way that CNN's Lou Dobbs carries on.
Ray,
You mean ole' one note, 'lock the borders', 'tro' da' bums out', 'you're not here to be interviewed, you're here to listen to my lecture', Louie? Never heard of him :-).
Yeah, I guess there is a certain monootone to what he says. As a Canadian, I can't agree with everything that he says. Nevertheless, I get a chuckle over his observations about how the American worker is being treated by American business.
In "Tte Foolish Dictionary" by Gideon Wurdz, published in 1904, there is an entry at "pro and con" letting us know that these are prefixes of opposite meanings as in "progress and congress'. Maybe what Lou has discovered isn't very new after all.
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