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A contradictory undertaking
. Will this lead to a state of limbo? Filed under: humour, Ireland, photography, signs Tagged: funeral, humour, Ireland, logic, paradox, photography, puns, puzzles, signs, undertakers, urban photography
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Reductio ad Godwinum
Anyone who has spent some time online, especially in forums or social media where chat and debate predominate, is likely to have come across references to Godwin’s Law, created by Mike Godwin in 1990:...
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A morsel of logic
At Macmillan Dictionary Blog I’ve been writing about etymology and Lewis Carroll. Etymology bites back traces the connections between the words morsel, remorse, and mordant – all of which carry the...
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Notes on language from Steve Martin
Yes, that Steve Martin. I just read Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life, his engaging account of his early years as a stand-up comedian and gag writer for TV, and I’d like to share a few short passages...
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Raising the question of ‘beg the question’
One of the phrases most guaranteed to annoy usage traditionalists and purists is beg the question meaning raise the question or evade the question. While raise the question (or invite, elicit, prompt,...
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