finger Psst! Can I interest you in a preposition?

 

Anent is going cheap - hardly used now. It will not bring in much of an income, of course. It is not like to, which Bill Gates is rumoured to own. Every time you say different to bang goes another nickel into William's pocket. I say different from, myself. After all, travelling from something makes your locations more different and travelling to makes them more the same. I could not swear who has the rights to from, though.

If prepositions are not your cup of tea, how about some classy brand names? Now these can be real earners. Just think about Magnetic Moment. Givenchy would pay you millions to get its claws on that. I can vouch for its provenance too. There are a lot more where that came from. In fact that is my speciality. No fell off the back of a lorry stuff here, I can assure you, only the genuine goods.

So, you are a preacher? Well I have just the thing for you. How about Do not neglect the higher powers? Not high church enough? What about Suppress the vanilla wafer? It is like taking cookies from a baby. Mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists - you would not believe how innocent they are. They have no idea how to sell.

What do you mean? Look, if Disney can half-inch folk tales and children's imaginations, and sell the stuff back, vulgarized and coarsened, and make billions from what used to belong to everybody, then why should not I do the same with language? Enterprise is what the Iron Lady called it. That is the name of the game. Everybody loves an entrepreneur these days. Movers and shakers they are. No, not shaker furniture - that is my friend with a distressing machine and good connections at the container terminal that you want.


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