Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. —Henry Fielding

15 December 2009

When Academia Is Silly


Aaron: I found the word that corporealize wishes it were: incarnate. Do the two differ? I love incarnate's blatant etymological associations with meat.
Tim: You may be right. *Sigh* All I wanted for Christmas was a justifiable neologism in my name.

Anne: But corporealize gives us this opportunity: (corpo)realize.
Tim: True, Anne! And that's way better than the weakly post-colonial (Inca)rnate.

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