H. L. Mencken
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I always liked Mencken - but didn't know of this quote until just now. Many thanks for this!
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Mencken loved snark too much to get it right. It's the decay of or failure to develop democracy that puts crooks charlatans and incompetents in office.
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Mencken was prescient.
Mencken wrote a fascinating book called The American Language which showed how American English differed from British English. The book argued that since Americans had their own country, they needed to name new things and so developed their own language.
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