Towse: views from the hill

November 20, 2006

[URL] Quotiki – Search and Share Your Favorite Quotations

Filed under: URL — Towse @ 8:00 pm

Quotiki

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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