Yeah, Bill.
You have a feel for such idioms.
(The one line I stumble over is
nous lack
maybe cause you force the noun to be an adjective…
Max
On Sep 1, 2015, at 14:44, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In the lexicon of insults,
> somewhere between
> a klutz and a dipshit?
>
> Usually preceded
> by the adjective 'stupid',
> ignorance is implicit.
>
> But a particular sort
> of twittery earns
> gittishness, not merely
>
> unawareness; rather
> a deep and obvious
> nous lack.
>
> Your standard git
> announces himself
> (females are unaccountably
>
> excluded from githood)
> by doing something
> no non-git would be
>
> caught dead doing
> or by failing to do what
> sensibles manage unthinkably.
>
> If not born a git,
> beware: you might yet
> make a git of yourself.
>
> bw
>
> Thanks L, for providing the impetus here.
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