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letting a chimpanzee loose in the NORAD control room

Eve Maler brings our attention to Mark Liberman seeking a name for a particular class of communication …

where you say something not because you mean it, exactly, but because it gives you a chance to use a word or phrase you’ve been saving up

I thought the word for that was blogging. The stuff in our heads is always struggling to get out. It’s willing to escape using whatever media is available.

This was written by bhyde. Posted on Sunday, May 1, 2005, at 12:37 pm. Filed under General. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

2 Comments

  1. Eve M. wrote:

    Hi Ben– Hysterical! (Note, though, that it wasn’t Michael Kaplan of Microsoft but Mark Liberman of the Language Log who posed the question…)

    Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 5:46 pm | Permalink
  2. Ben Hyde wrote:

    Thanks Eve, I’ve fixed the names. – ben

    Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 6:19 pm | Permalink

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