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Or that you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?
Or when your house goes up in flames in order to burn down to the ground?
Steven Pinker gave a great lecture about this (and, incidentally, the neurological purpose of swearing) at Town Hall a couple of months ago. Though they seem redundant and contradictory, the nuances of grammatical usage make them semantically distinct... it was really awesome.
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Or that you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?
Or when your house goes up in flames in order to burn down to the ground?
Steven Pinker gave a great lecture about this (and, incidentally, the neurological purpose of swearing) at Town Hall a couple of months ago. Though they seem redundant and contradictory, the nuances of grammatical usage make them semantically distinct... it was really awesome.
Man, I'm such a geek.
Town Hall?
Town Hall:
http://www.townhallseattle.org/
I think he was promoting his new book. I didn't buy it, but The Language Instinct is pretty good.
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