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  1. Drunk Persians, Political Correctness, and Deceptive Advertising

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    November 23, 2016 by libroshombre

      Herodotus reported that the ancient Persians preferred getting drunk when deciding something important, and the next day, after sobering …
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    Category: advertising, grammar, magazines, manners, Michel Montaigne, punctuation, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , ,

  2. Morphemes, Bashi-Bazouks, and Grawlixes

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    January 30, 2014 by libroshombre

    Libraries, those magnificent repositories of knowledge, are brimming with words of all sorts: written, spoken, sung, and projected. This is …
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    Category: authors, communication, words, writing | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

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