adding "ist' - it' so evil

**KafirChobee** · 04-15-2007, 08:16

I realise it seems absurd, that by adding "-ist" to the end of an adjective that it could possibly make the word evil. But, it is being tested in NW (newsweek) and USN&WR (we will do anything that dubya tells us) as well.

Take this as an absurdity. Nothing more.

Then consider... "IST"

First their were fasc"ist's", then commun"ists", then .... look back - and you will see the use of "IST".

Personally, at this stage of my life i find it all absurd. But, pay attention (to those that doubt me) and tell me in (SAY) six months their won't be more "ists".

"ISTS", being used " left'ists' (opposition is rightwing), liberalists (noticed this one 3 weeks ago in NW, but I am slow).

Thing is, it is a matter of syntax. It is a matter of phrasing a supposition in a manner that appeals or misleads those that accept anything that "their" political party says into being "their reality".

[SIZE="4"]ist[/SIZE ] seems small, but consitor it.

fascist, communist, leftist, liberalist, antipatriotist, .... add an "ist" ... and make anything evil.

**CountArach** · 04-15-2007, 08:20

Capitalist...

... This is sounding like it might actually be true...

**Csargo** · 04-15-2007, 08:33

It sounds crazy, but I can't think of more than two good "ist's" maybe I'm just really tired.

**Adrian II** · 04-15-2007, 08:45

Most lists are OK, though. I'm a socialist and it sounds better every day. It's the gists and the mists that get the short end: bigamists, meteorologists, sodomists.