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Smart Talk SMART TALK By Clara Dix, N.P.
THAT’S ALL WELL AND GOOD: After meeting together in Strunk Hall, the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired staff’s general consensus was not to call the clause that’s all well and good a symptom of William F. Buckley Syndrome. Doing so would insult Mr. Buckley.
A sufferer of William F. Buckley Syndrome would fail to see the humor in a poster advising, “Eschew Obfuscation.”
Rather, that’s all well and good indicates cerebroporosis. The speaker either wants to impress those who are even more ignorant, or doesn’t know about predicate adjectives and also commits the error of saying I feel badly.
In language, simple is better. So simply say that’s fine, that’s good, or that’s OK. OK?
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