The New York Times Book Review ought to get an editor — fast. Somebody’s not minding
\nthe store.<\/P>
\n
What’s wrong in this sentence? “She is equally ferocious when she expresses her disgust with
\nconsolidated radio empires and the ludicrosities of the F.C.C itself.”<\/P>
\n
The noun, as far as I know, is ludicrousness. It’s not a word that comes rippingly off the “Nas and Jay-Z in a gay prono [sic] together … what kind of ludicrosity is <\/P> I’ll grant ludicrosity<\/I> its place in that context if I must. But it’s not the sort of If being hip was intended, how to explain this from the same critique? “She writes in a The New York Times Book Review ought to get an editor — fast. Somebody’s not minding the store. What’s wrong in this sentence? “She is equally ferocious when she expresses her disgust with consolidated radio empires and the ludicrosities of the F.C.C itself.” The noun, as far as I know, is ludicrousness. It’s not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntongue and is better avoided. But
\nfind it in the online slang dictionary
\nas:<\/P>
\n1. A descritpive [sic] term used to describe the state of a person, place, thing
\nor event of a particularly ludicrous nature.
\n
\nthis?!?!”<\/I><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\n
\nneologism that sticks — and in a Times review it’s, shall we say, way misplaced. A rap
\nreference in a critique of a
\n
\nstraightforward enough magazine style, but veers between entertaining overdisclosure and a
\nseeming fear of divulgation.” Divulgation?<\/I> Hello? That word is so long out of use it
\nsmells of mothballs. As for the timid hedging … oh, never mind.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"