“Privilegedly Small”

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Clarissa

December 19, 2013

I’ve got to start cataloguing all of the inventive ways people are using the word “privilege” these days. Here is one. Author Jeremy Treglown is talking in his book Franco’s Crypt about a documentary by Patino and mentions that, in the movie, the rich and powerful

are always seen in privilegedly small numbers.

I’m guessing that Treglown is not very much into people.

If you are a fellow Hispanist and were considering reading Franco’s Crypt, I don’t recommend it. The author is an embodiment of every bad stereotype about the British people. For him, a Spanish artist, no matter how renowned and talented, needs to have been noticed by some obscure Brit to merit any attention. He is pompous, self-aggrandizing, obnoxious, and very much enamored of Franco’s dictatorship.

I will be bashing him in my next article because just thinking of this fellow makes my blood pressure go up.

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5 responses to ““Privilegedly Small””

Lindsay

December 19, 2013

I’ve never seen an adverb made from the adjective “privileged” before; it seems very awkward. Priviledgedly. How many syllables is that? Is the latter half of it pronounced like “allegedly”, or is the “edg” supposed to blend in with the “ed”?

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1. thevenerablecorvex
  
  December 19, 2013
  
  I’d pronounce it as if it rhymes with “rigidly,” personally.
  
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Jones

December 20, 2013

Hennessy has a cognac called Privilège, in case you weren’t aware.

Amusingly, it comes in flask bottles so you can look leisurely louche while getting lushly loaded — with a tan paper bag around it, you can look like a homeless drunkard while getting sideways on slightly upscale tipple …

“Privilegedly small numbers” … why not the number 1? When I think of privilege, I think of the privilege of not being hounded by dull sycophants who would drain my blood as easily as they are draining my good humour. One would be the proper number of the count … thou must not count to three. Five is right out!

Do they have burn barrels big enough for bureaucrats? Wait, that’s so French Revolution done on the cheap … how American, really. 🙂

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1. Lindsay
  
  December 20, 2013
  
  … why not the number 1?
  
  I know I won’t be thinking of one as the loneliest number anymore! It can be the most privileged number instead.
  
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  1. bloggerclarissa
    
    December 20, 2013
    
    ” I won’t be thinking of one as the loneliest number anymore! It can be the most privileged number instead.”
    
    – This is the best comment. 🙂
    
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