>> On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:08 AM, Brent Tarter wrote:
>>
>> Any reference librarian or good historian is aware of numerous
>> instances in which such ill-informed publications generate myths or
>> misstatements of fact that work like just so much kudzu, clogging up
>> understanding of the past and leading future readers astray.

Many of us enjoy The New Yorker's bottom-of-the-column news excerpts and
wry comments. Well, several years ago I noticed a simile in a New Yorker
article that described some kind of clog or bottleneck as "like kudzu in a
southern waterway."  I clipped it out and mailed it to The New Yorker with
a note suggesting that perhaps the clog was more like water hyacinth
blocking a southern highway.  Never heard a word in response.


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