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Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:34:14 +0200
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20$ for a juice? I thought the dollar was already pretty high these
days? Seldom do I say this phrase but what the fuck!

On 5/9/11, Wes Kussmaul <wes@authentrus.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 18:54 +0200, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
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>> Just look for the origin: the verb is "sophistiquer"... The usage and
>> the dictionnaries are inconsistant, since "sophistiqu=C3=A9" (now used n=
on
>> pejoratively) is the past participle of "sophistiquer" that is
>> definitively pejorative. (Look for "sophistiquement" too; all this comes
>> from philosophy where sophiste is not to be taken in good part)...
>
>
> This is where semantics encounters the "everybody's somebody's fool"
> principle. I hang out with people who pay $20+++ for a liter of spoiled
> grape juice. The more they pay the more their peers regard them as being
> sophisticated. People outside that culture would see that very same use
> of the term "sophisticated" as a pejorative. Sophistication is in the
> eye of the beholder.
>