Two Party Opera by Brian Carroll for April 13, 2023

Universal

https://www.ohchr.org/en/human-rights/universal-declaration/universal-declaration-human-rights

In law, language is king. One wonders what loophole are created by the difference between unalienable and inalienable. And what will that lead to when we finally make contact with aliens?

Have to thank you for the Al Jaffe folding cartoon – it printed great and I was able to show it many friends, reminisce about Mad Magazine and remember the fun it was. I’ll do the same today.

Nice John Hancock signature there.

I love discussions of the ins and uns of grammar.

Happy 280th, Tommy!

On and off friends. Ya know they died the same day.

Is this the first appearance in “TPO’” of Thomas Jefferson without a glass of wine in his hand? And here I thought it was his inalienable right to drink wine!

I can understand what “Inalienable” refers to, but is “unalienable” even a word in the English language?

“I’ll speak to the printer!”

John Adams “1776”

Flammable or Imflammable? You choose.

Unconceivable!

In.

Well, normally in- construes with Latinate words, un- with Germanic ones. There are of course many accepted exceptions—unpardonable, unpredictable, unaccented, unaccompanied, unaccustomed, and so on. Oddly, there seem to be no forms in in- (or il- ir- im-) in the privative sense, bien entendu, built to Germanic elements.