All-embracing linguification
Michael Pollan,
The Omnivore's
Dilemma (Penguin, 2006), p. 6, cites an all-embracing
linguification:
"The whole of nature," wrote the
English author William Ralph Inge, "is a conjugation of the verb to
eat, in the active and passive."
I eat. You eat. ... I ate. You ate. ... ... I
am eaten [aiee!]. You are eaten. ... I was eaten. You
were eaten. ... ... I have been being eaten. ... ...
The lyrics need work, dude.
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Posted by Arnold Zwicky at September 14, 2006 08:45 PM