Perhaps that explains it
Beloved is upset with me. He claims I've been slandering the Swiss. I don't see it at all. Apart from pointing out - quite truthfully - that they're all bonkers, I haven't said anything objectionable. Have I?
However, I'm just about to.
Today's Worthless Word is ultramontane. Two of its three definitions* follow.
1) situated beyond the (Alps) mountains;
3) claiming an absolute supremacy or a privileged
superiority.
I think I now understand the Swiss a little bit better. Their sense of superiority is lexicographically induced.
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* The other is to do with the Pope and not relevant to present discussion.
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answers.com defines slander as " A false and malicious statement or report about someone."
I'm sure this will help.
jxmzj: Hungarian for entropy.
Slander? They love mountains, and are super efficient, and clean and eat a lot of cheese...that's slander? Awww.
Yeah, Guyana Gyal, and to back up the claim that I was being rude, he quoted you. He thought your comment that "I know some lovely Swiss people!" *obviously* meant that you were leaping to the defence of those I was slandering. Chip on shoulder, much.
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