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by Larissa MacFarquhar is so off base that it is difficult to fathom that she really believes what she is saying.
We who are in control of the media and therefore aware of the context in which unclear English is used, know what's going on (and therefore the meanings of the utterances used to describe it), while the vulgar (to use Berkeley's delightful expression for those with a shaky grasp of vocabulary and syntax who are therefore ill equipped to understand some particular bit of newspeak) are led to believe, when they fail to fathom what's going on, that the failure in comprehension is entirely their fault.
When he attempts to fathom what's happening to him, Jonze and Kaufman deliver a coup de cinema --a vision of hell that isn't, à la Sartre, other people, but oneself ad infinitum.
Of the other main entries, macedonian cry or macedonian call, macedonian-persian , and macedonian pine , each shows “ usu cap .” As all of these entries are conventionally capitalized in normal English, it is difficult to fathom the rationale for the treatment, and 5 CAPITALIZATION , in the Explanatory Notes, reveals nothing useful.
Feel the texture of a hand offered in greeting and try to fathom the “Jamaican handshake,” a ritual whose rules seem to be more complex than those of the game of cricket.