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Language Liberalism Freethought Birds

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.

The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.

If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.

Sunday, April 05, 2009

Both of one

"One of the things you can't teach," Trey Wingo says, "speed and quickness."

Which is marginally acceptable - a simple production error (speed or quickness) or possibly inserting the "and" before an apposition. Or maybe even "speed and quickness" are "the things you can't teach" and he's going to talk about one of them - completely okay.

But then Trey finished his thought:

"And Montgomery has both of them."

(UConn by 13 with just under 4 to go, first half.)

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Barry Leiba11:15 PM, April 05, 2009
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't.
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