pinchy dot orgBecause Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.A fucking brilliant formulation- October 21, 2007 From a Steven Pinker essay on the emotional power of swearing: As it happens, most expletives aren&8217;t genuine adverbs, either. One study notes that, while you can say That&8217;s too fucking bad, you can&8217;t say That&8217;s too very bad. Also, as linguist Geoffrey Nunberg pointed out, while you can imagine the dialogue How brilliant was it Very, you would never hear the dialogue How brilliant was it Fucking.http://www.pinchy.org/weblog/2007/10/21/fucking_brilliant If the government trusts them, maybe I could- October 8, 2007 When one of my friends mentioned that it was Fleet Week in San Francisco, and that the Blue Angels would therefore be coming to town, I immediately got on the highest horse I could locate on such short notice. &8220;It&8217;s unconscionable,&8221; I complained. &8220;Does it make any sense for jet fighters to fly in close formation above a densely-populated city No, it does not. Can you imagine if an accident happened I don&8217;t think I could ever watch the Blue Angels. I&8217;d feel horribly.http://www.pinchy.org/weblog/2007/10/07/blue_angels |