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Well this ruins my strategy to become smart. Time to move onto plan B, "reading War and Peace and telling everybody about it".

• jgg 16y ago
  Don't forget "Atlas Shrugged". I hear that one mentioned at least twice a day by patrons of my local Starbuck's, so I know it must be deep. (-:
  • philk 16y ago
    If that doesn't work I'm just going to learn some French words and randomly sprinkle them throughout my conversations. Merci. Baguette. Champagne. [1] [1] See? I sound erudite already.
    • ghfdrvtsyup 16y ago
      using words like 'erudite' is a perfectly cromulent way of displaying your intelligence.
      • pyre 16y ago
        How uncouth!
    • GFischer 16y ago
      You wouldn't believe how some French words get bastardized by common usage by speakers of other languages :) The current word being destroyed in Argentina and Uruguay: "chapeau" (but you wouldn't recognize it when spoken by one of my countrymen) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapeau http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapeau "Chapeau! is often used as a generic expression of approval and appreciation in France and other parts of Europe : as a sign of admiration or respect, one shall indeed remove his hat"
  • trafficlight 16y ago
    It's a quick read. You can gloss over 75% of the book as it's extremely redundant.
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• rudyfink 16y ago
  “Classic - A book which people praise and don't read.” - M. Twain