With Mx, I didn’t get all that you later told us, Dominic, but I did get the anger, & the suave linguistic lay.
And how pertinent in so many polities is 'pall-bearers of uncalled-for expertise.’
Doug
> On Jul 20, 2016, at 5:49 PM, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Pretense at knowing Latin - ave atque -
> little-befitting valet, overrated
> big-data-groomer pitching for attention.
> Sic algorithmic whizz on Chilcot; sift
> for sentiment, accumulate small mercies:
> a buried empire’s gift for elegy
> in parcelled phrases, morsels of conceit.
> Machine-translated Virgil frazzles nuance,
> makes hash of syntax, say high classicists,
> pall-bearers of uncalled-for expertise.
> Find half-life on the far side of depletion -
> supposing we are pre-known by such clauses,
> discovered so at grievance - at regina -
> so carpet-bombed by an unseeing fire.
Douglas Barbour
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