Grice's Inverted Snobbery -- Inverted

Grice on inverted snobbery.

Grice found that the worse critics of his brand of 'ordinary linguistic philosopher' were not lumpenproletariaet, but rather Sorbonne types:

They would look down on the


"the [British] Establishment whose
home lies within the ancient walls
of Oxford -- walls of stone, not
of red brick -- and whose upbringing
is founded in a classical education,
and attempts to preserve control of
philosophy by gearing philosophical
practice to the deployment of a
profficiency especially accessible to
the Establishment -- viz. a
highly developed sensitivity to
the richness of linguistic usage".
Paul Grice,
"Prejudices and predilections, which
becomes the life and opinions of Paul Grice"
(Gr86:51)

This leaves aside Chevalier (author of "Me ol' Dutch"): he also developed a high sensitivity to the richness of linguistic usage -- and set it to music, too!