Not really about language, but it tickled my sensibilities: Stephen Holden’s NYT music column of May 1 about the biographical revue “Sondheim on Sondheim”: For all his songs’ universality, the Sondheim philosophy is specific and exclusive. Directed toward his own class — an urbane, well-educated, culturally cosmopolitan gentry — his lyrics define what might be … Continue reading Short shot #43: Manhattan sensibility