Comfortably Numb

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Humour: Where has the word `taken` gone?

Where has the word `taken gone? How the writer has stumbled upon a conspiracy to remove a key word from the English dictionary. Now I don’t for a minute want to ring any alarm bells. I don’t even want to imply that I have stumbled on a Yossarian-like campaign to slowly, inexorably remove words from…

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Humour: Yes, this is English, too!

Yes, this is English, too! “In his masterpiece “Leaves of Grass”, Walt Whitman  says: “The English language befriends the grand American expression….it is brawny enough and limber enough and full enough….it is the medium  that shall well nigh express the inexpressible.” One wonders. One really wonders. All the more when one reads sentences that –…

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