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Smart TalkSMART TALK by Dr. Manda Rynne
THE MONTH OF MAY: Why do so many think they need to tell us that May is a month? The Institute for the Linguistically Impaired officially calls these ninnies temporal retentives. Of course, we call them ninnies only in the privacy of the Fowler Lounge, after a stressful week a couple of rounds. Never in public. Never. It might insult the poor things.
Temporal retentives are the ones who tell us that a date is a date, with memos that say Date: May 9, 2008. They are the politicos who pontificate about the opposing party's benighted policies during the decade of the nineties.
And they can't say 2008. It has to be the year 2008.
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Please support the Edwin Newman Clinic in its effort to find a cure for Temporal Retentive Syndrome (TRS).
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