To: yoe
"...who are these American people whom politicians so flippantly feign to speak for?" Sigh...
The word you're looking for is 'deign'.
8 posted on
12/08/2019 5:41:01 PM PST by
Windflier
(Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: Windflier
Excellent catch!
Also, you inject hope into my despair of seeing Freepers using such words and phrases as “then” instead of than, as well as the idiotic “I could care less”, and the new moronic low that is “should of”.
11 posted on
12/08/2019 5:54:37 PM PST by
LittleBillyInfidel
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To: Windflier
thank you ;-)
12 posted on
12/08/2019 5:56:15 PM PST by
tomkat
To: Windflier
You are wrong. The word feign is appropriate in the context.
13 posted on
12/08/2019 6:26:51 PM PST by
BatGuano
(Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya?)
To: Windflier
Re: deign and feign
I think it’s quite possible the author did mean “feign.”
To “pretend” to speak for.
To: Windflier; yoe; LittleBillyInfidel; tomkat; BatGuano; zeestephen
"...who are these American people whom politicians so flippantly feign to speak for?” Sigh…
The word you're looking for is 'deign’.
The dictionary defines “feign” as pretending a feeling - such as nervousness. So in that sense you’re right that “feign” is misused - except of course in the sense that liberals don’t think, they “feel.” OTOH deign really doesn’t suit either, since that would imply condescending to speak for the American people. Of course liberals condescend to people generally, but I don’t think they condescend to speak for them.
I vote for “arrogantly presume,” myself.
25 posted on
12/09/2019 6:24:24 AM PST by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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