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He gently castigated Shaw for indulging in one of the modish foibles of the day by calling himself G. Bernard Shaw rather than use, in the good old Irish manner, George B. Shaw .
I felt Wilson was sometimes too complacent in seeing human foibles (such as irrational spiritual beliefs) as evolutionarily adaptive.
Visible speech, regardless whether alphabetic or logographic, with all its faults and foibles, its inherent inconsistencies, inadequacies, and inaccuracies, it seems, is here to stay.
For example, the current trend among stand-up comedians--particularly as reflected in the persistent American television broadcasts from various improvs--is simply to retail common, ordinary, everday events and rely on the audience to laugh appreciatively at the perception of the comedian to point out our foibles.
I begin to cleave to the well-matured story, I'm afraid; but it does have the advantage today, when the younger generations demonstrate a total lack of respect for tradition, of not being overworked by the comedians who rarely say anything funny or even clever but make up their routines to remind us of our foibles.