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   Message 62,116 of 62,757   
   occam to Steve Hayes   
   Re: The English language is doomed   
   11 Oct 18 15:08:55   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: occam@invalid.nix   
      
   On 11/10/2018 05:13, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > Noam Chomsky, ,   
   >   
   > Read it all here:   
   >   
   > https://t.co/NoRMuaFCLC   
   >   
      
   Here is an excerpt from Fisk's article, which coincidentally links to   
   another thread here.   
      
   " She [Kate O’Brien] was, with ghastly prescience, writing from civil   
   war Spain in 1937 about the way in which technology would change the way   
   we think about the world. “Science, *having paid the piper* [my   
   emphasis], calls the tune,” she wrote in her book Farewell Spain. "   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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