Monday, November 20, 2006
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Be interesting to see, as Quotiki evolves, whether general misinformation about quotations and attributions gets picked up as gospel.
Case in point: a recent discussion on ADS-L discussing "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
Oft times attributed to Groucho Marx, this quote is now attributed to Tony Oettinger, a professor with interests in computational linguistics with a 1966 cite.
The gang of word huggers on the ADS-L list are merrily trying to antedate the quote and/or confirm it with Oettinger.
[snagged from Cygnoir's del.icio.us list.]
posted by Sal Towse at 12:00 PM|
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Be interesting to see, as Quotiki evolves, whether general misinformation about quotations and attributions gets picked up as gospel.
Case in point: a recent discussion on ADS-L discussing "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
Oft times attributed to Groucho Marx, this quote is now attributed to Tony Oettinger, a professor with interests in computational linguistics with a 1966 cite.
The gang of word huggers on the ADS-L list are merrily trying to antedate the quote and/or confirm it with Oettinger.
[snagged from Cygnoir's del.icio.us list.]
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posted by Sal Towse at 12:00 PM|
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
