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In praise of English and of human creativity

Somewhere very deep in the bowels of a long discussion on spatial metaphors in web design on peterme.com, there exists a beautiful thing:

"Googling around, I found a paper on..."

I never cease to be amazed and amused at the way people will bend words -- even proper nouns -- to their will. Somewhere Chomsky is laughing his ass off.

4 Dec 2001 at 02:47 AM