Letter: Frank Rich makes column hard to read

Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007 | 7 a.m.

I wanted to bring to your attention the column by Frank Rich, which you published on Aug. 8. He is a writer for The New York Times who seems to have forgotten that newspapers are supposed to be easy to read. We shouldn't have to keep looking up words in the dictionary to understand what the writer is saying.

All of the following words were in his Aug. 8 column: sycophant, ubiquitous, soliloquize, Korffian, Nixon Kool-Aid, credulous, denouement, truculent, pro forma, disingenuous, proselytized, compendium, invective, jingoistic and pseudonymous.

Writers who load their articles with that many unusual words bring to mind a word that I'm sure your readers will understand: pompous.

Joseph D. Olson, North Las Vegas

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