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Sep 21, 2006 11:52

Well I am currently reading another book in my series which I will now call "The Books I am Reading Because Now I Ride The Subway Collection". The collection includes such classics as "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul", "Confederacy of Dunces", "Tough Jews", and the new addition is "Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its ( Read more... )

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And then there's the language of the visual mediums subtlegray September 21 2006, 17:55:47 UTC
You should've included "flobdalflick" in your tags.
i see a future with that word.
i also see this investigation uncovering exactly where Justin Timberlake is bringing "Sexy" back from.

This post reminded me of Esperanto (Doctor Esperanto) and why it failed. Had anyone succeeded in turning Esperanto into everyone's second language, it would mean that the world could communicate and the option of waging war would be overwith. All language barriers with educated people (the one's who start the wars) and the proles (the one's who stayed in school at least until age 16) would be broken down.
Esperanto meant a step towards the end of being able to hide the truth; a step towards the end of lying.

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Re: And then there's the language of the visual mediums spiderichman September 21 2006, 18:53:33 UTC
Yeah, Esperanto definately must have been stopped by those educated enough to start wars to keep them from being stopped, and also keep me from getting paid a lot more money.

Also, thanks for the tag reminder, I totally ment to, but now I did.

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drkelly September 21 2006, 22:00:32 UTC
Studies have shown that a majority of the people US say "Pop", not "Soda."

And by studies, I mean a survey of one. Me.

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