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In a former polemical life, and at a different portal than this one, I authored an occasional column called Shane’s Excellent New Words. The basic premise: “Because for some of us, words mean more than money.”
Specifically, the concept was aimed squarely at its namesake, a local consigliere who liked to joke in the fashion of Philistines everywhere that Roger used too many big words.
Accordingly, I harnessed as many of these difficult multisyllabic words as possible to torment him. Eventually he extracted his wallet from yonder rear pocket and hit me forcefully with his money. I conceded the inevitability of capitalism, and lived happily ever after with my beers and dry-roasted peanuts, reading actual books.
Now, for some beer wordplay. Classism versus classicism? The words have very different meanings.
classism [klas-iz-uh m] noun
a biased or discriminatory attitude based on distinctions made between social or economic classes.
the viewing of society as...
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