Martin,
> Recognizing that many of you are New Yorkers,
>
Yes, but those of us that qualify are not too sure we really want to be.
Please don't lose us.
> This kid obviously just likes the sound of certain words. Remember this the next time you quote something from Slate. (To be fair, he is only two years out of college. In NYC -- at Columbia. His father Alex Beam is a journalist in Boston.)
>
Writers have problems like that. They need friends to kick them in the
head on occasion. Send us his e-mail and we will hi-jack him to BP as
punishment for descriptive license.
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