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JAMES J. KILPATRICK
Unheml Press Syndicate
Not long ago the Medical University of South Carolina sent a warning notice to employees: State and federal regulations on hazardous waste must be strinctly observed. Violators risk enforcement actions, “notably in the form of exuberant fines.”
As an editor, I’ve met dull sentences, but I never met an exuberant fine. Manifestly the writer meant “exorbitant,” but it came out wrong.
These things happen. Why do they happen? The more I have thought about such semantic pratfalls, the more I am persuaded that they arise from three sources. Carelessness is one source, of course, and just plain ignorance is another. But there’s something else. Writers, if they truly love the language, cannot resist the temptation of a ten-dollar
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