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Category Archives: Word Play

Arabic words in English

From Arabic words in English here, I found a few surprises and some I already knew. I wonder if the origins of a few of the words below are contested … Continue reading

16 February, 2007 · 15 Comments

The terror weasel word

© David Baldinger Thanks to Servant for providing this snippet from a Robert Fisk lecture.  It was one Fisk gave in Canada but is almost word for word the same … Continue reading

13 January, 2007 · 20 Comments

Do not adjust your screens: wordplay optical illusions

This gives collapsing binaries a new meaning … I love optical illusions of any kind; today we feature just a few that play on words.   Do you see good … Continue reading

12 November, 2006 · 2 Comments

The importance of grammar

Woman without her man is nothing properly becomes Woman: without her, man is nothing. :) Its an oldie and a goodie, this one. Its one women like to bring out … Continue reading

10 November, 2006 · 14 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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