The reviewer shall remain decently anonymous.
...the immune system is thought to be involved in fighting disease, pregnancy and the brain.
Two thoughts, here (which is, I fear, at least one more than the writer seems to have bestowed on this bit of his review).
First: if the immune system didn't fight disease then it wouldn't be...er...an immune system. Would it?
Second: if the writer had put fighting disease at the end of his list then he'd have saved himself embarrassment.
But, hey, it gave me a laugh.
Word To Use Today: immune. This word comes form the Latin immūnis, which means exempt from public service, from mūnis, which means duty.
Yes: and it doesn't exactly 'fight' pregnancy, does it? Or, god save us, the brain?
ReplyDeleteBrilliant to hear from you, Katherine.
DeleteYes, you're quite right, of course. But then I suppose if people stopped to engage their brains before they attacked their keyboards then the newspapers would hardly be big enough to line a litter tray.
And then where would we be?
You certainly have a point there!
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