From a review in the Guardian of an Eddie Izzard stand-up comedy concert, 22 Nov 08 by Brian Logan:
"It's fabulously polymathic: not many comedy shows reference the battle of Thermopylae. Izzard credits Wikipedia, but the thanks should flow in the other direction. After all, Izzard was hotlinking between screeds of erudite waffle when Wikipedia was but a glint in the programmer’s eye.”
Setting aside that I don’t even know what polymathic means, “hotlinking between screed of erudite waffle”! Where else but in England do concert reviews read like “Jabberwocky”? If our columnists were so original, perhaps the American newspaper wouldn’t be following the dodo’s path. I do love the love of language here.
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