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He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds
me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on
the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs
barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort
of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of
pish, and crawls insanely up to the topmost pinnacle of posh, it is
rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.
--H.L. Mencken on Warren G. Harding's inaugural address.
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