Adam Gopnik to Hendrik Hertzberg: “Interesting thing, to me at least. If you Google Obama’s wonderful line “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” it’s credited right and left, and going back to the nineties, as a bit of Hopi Indian wisdom. I haven’t (a) read this anywhere or (b) seen anything made of [...]
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From Anschluss to Zyklon B
January 31st, 2008
Der Spiegel, From ‘Anschluss’ to ‘Zyklon B’. New Dictionary Highlights Nazi Words to Avoid: “But there is another, more subtle, linguistic trap which both Germans and non-Germans can easily fall into — and which is far worse a faux pas than a mere slip of the article. Mention that you’ve found the “Endlösung” (“final solution”) [...]
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links for 2006-10-03
October 3rd, 2006
CNN.com – Software finds missing ‘a’ in Armstrong’s moon quote – Sep 30, 2006 “An Australian computer programmer says he found the missing “a” from Armstrong’s famous first words from the moon in 1969, when the world heard the phrase, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”” (tags: semantics moon quotes) [...]
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