Who put the ass in aesthetics?
All right, the word is about beauty but, unless I miss my guess someone messed up here, I mean Aesop has the long A sound (you know, like ay) while aesthetics has the short A sound (you know, like ass)! It isn’t even pretty, much less aesthetic. Speaking of old time spinners of fables, wasn’t Aesop aesthetically athletic? Yeah, I know that’s pathetic but don’t worry, its rhetorical, which by the way makes me a rhetorical oracle. Sort of. Then there is the rest of the word, which follows ass,... Sign in to see full entry.