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| Colin Cornouiller |
Colin
Cornouiller et Mme Maladroit longeron au salon…
Mme Maladroit: I think you should accept the
New Year honours award.
Colin Cornouiller: I don’t think so.
Mme Maladroit: Some people like to slide away
from the reality of viewing a truth horse in the mouth.
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| Mme Maladroit |
Colin Cornouiller: What are you saying? What
verbosity! And a Dogberry to boot! Like George Bush’s "It will take time
to restore chaos and order."
Mme Maladroit: Dogbelly?
Colin Cornouiller: Dogberry. Like a Malapropism.
Mme Maladroit: I know Dogberry. Just kidding you
with my capricious creativity.
Colin Cornouiller: Sure it wasn’t your
fluctuating dementia?
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Voice-over
Shakespeare’s Dogberry with lines like “You are
thought here to be the most senseless (sensible) and fit man for the constable
of the watch…” (Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, scene 3, c1598) was well ahead
of Sheridan’s (1775) Mrs Malaprop with lines like "She's as headstrong as
an allegory (alligator) on the banks of Nile." Donald Davidson observes
that doing such things with words is indicative of the complexities of
cognition.
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