The best coined phrase that you will read this week, courtesy of Language Log’ Prof. Geoffrey Pollum:
You can’t get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can’t really get a leopard to appreciate the notion that it has spots. You can explain it carefully to the leopard, but it will just sit there looking at you, knowing that you are made of meat. After a while it will perhaps kill you.
Not the most substantive post, we know, but it’s Shabbat and we’re relaxing. Those in the audience concerned for our well-being need not worry – we left the computer on all night, so that gets us off the hook. That’s how it works, right?
Previously: Port Deal Rewards Anti-Semitic Arab Boycott, More Evidence of New Anti-Israel Rhetorical Strategy: Orwellian Destruction of Language, Not Enough Translators Worse Than Too Many Translators? Open Question. FBI Incompetent? Obvi.
