December 4, 2008 @ 4:04 pm · Filed under Language and advertising, Language and culture
The television commercial asks: What happens if you take remote Chiang Mai villagers who have never seen a burger? Who don’t even have a word for burger? And ask them to compare a Whopper versus Big Mac? Imagine that: so isolated and primitive that they don't even have a word for burger! Yet another instance of […]
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July 26, 2008 @ 2:08 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
I'm something of a fan of books that correct misinformation — about facts in general, about famous quotations, about medical matters, and so on. Among my latest acquisitions is John Lloyd and John Mitchinson's The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong (2006) (with a foreword by Stephen Fry — yes, THAT […]
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