Thursday, August 17, 2006

Ruth Sheehan helped me learn today

A friend sent the following one-word comment on Raleigh News & Observer news columnist Ruth Sheehan's latest:
dreck
Dreck? I knew it couldn't be good, but just what did it mean?

Well, off to the dictionary to learn.
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dreck

n : merchandise that is shoddy or inferior [syn: schlock, shlock]


Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
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I'll bet there are already speech therapists out there thinking to use the following exercise with patients working on the sibilant s sound.

On Southport's sandy, sunny, sloping shores, she saw Sheehan's schlock in the Raleigh N&O.

So it's possible some good can come from a Ruth Sheehan column, but we have to work pretty hard to make it happen, don't we?
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3 comments:

  1. August West3:18 PM

    My take was different. In this instance, I hope that my take is the proper one.

    You can just be soooo mean, ya big meanie!

    ::..insert winking smiley here..::

    M.

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  2. August West4:54 PM

    I think she's just being her oh, so wry, self, waving the white flag and admitting, albeit in a double-secret ironic way that the blog entries she published are absolutely RIGHT.

    We know she knows.

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  3. Anonymous8:55 PM

    rivlax -

    It was only "fair use" if her next column descibes how the N&O got raked by bloggers.

    Otherwise it's a hit piece.

    -AC

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