A Supplement to the Biercian Dictionary

Introduction

Around the year 1900, Ambrose Bierce published his famous book:

The Devil’s Dictionary

This is the “Biercian Dictionary” referred to in the title of this document, for which a number of additions are proposed, as follows.

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community college: a post secondary institution of learning in which anything elite is looked down upon.

first edition: a neatly presented draft.

junior college: 1) where junior goes, because no other place will take him; 2) an institution of higher learning in which the senior students are taught by junior scholars.

political correctness: passionate concern over superficial customs in order to postpone indefinitely having to learn Esperanto.

renovation: what long neglected maintenance is called when it is finally performed.

that: what obtains when “much more than that” is asserted.

unstable regime: one which would act contrary to our interests were it not for the presence of our puppet regime.

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Regards,
Mike Jones
3.Jun.2012
Taiyuan China