How standards have slid...
May. 17th, 2018 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jsburbidgeFrom an article on the chaos within the White House communications department: "People could be canned, in other words, to set an example for others."
Back in the day, when people at least kept commonplace-books, in default of actual learning[1] this would have been phrased as "... pour encourager les autres".
[1]"What though his head be empty, if his commonplace-book be full", per Jonathan Swift.
Back in the day, when people at least kept commonplace-books, in default of actual learning[1] this would have been phrased as "... pour encourager les autres".
[1]"What though his head be empty, if his commonplace-book be full", per Jonathan Swift.
