Garlic and government

Subject: Garlic and government
From: Mark Levinson <mark -at- CRABAPPLE -dot- BITNET>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 11:06:22 IST

.. he routinely buttered AND GARLICKED (sorry for the new verb) his bread ...

** It's so easy to neologize in English. Other languages need governmentally
recognized academies if only to decide the gender of each new noun.

(This is as much as I can say in favor of the otherwise regrettable
rejection of the idea, floated by some of the first Pilgrims, that the
official language in America should be Hebrew.)

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