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Smart Talk SMART TALK By Laconia Crisp, N.P.
SPEAK TO THIS QUESTION: We can hear sufferers of William F. Buckley Syndrome say this at almost any meeting. They will also speak to this issue. They probably never wondered whether the question or the issue were listening.
Those who speak to a question often write or aspire to write for scholarly quarterlies, which contain tortured prose often meant to impress other poor writers and make them believe that the writer is privy to arcane knowledge.
What they mean, of course, is something like discuss this question or talk about this.
These same people often write memos to the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired headed, From the desk of… We always reply, “Dear desk.”
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