Nobel, Snowden, Pynchon

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Tue Sep 24 08:46:09 CDT 2013


Ok.

I overstated my case when I said that words have meanings, 
and that 'nazi' has a very specific meaning, yes. But of 
course, I was not talking about 'food nazis' or 'grammar 
nazis'. The context of your remark seemed clear and I 
couldn't see anything humourous about it.

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you *can* make 
words mean so many different things."

Thomas



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