Prescriptive Linguists

[Mark Mandel]

Oh, THAT! I know it as... well, various names, but the first I learned was
"blivet" ("blivit"?), possibly from MAD Magazine. Escher, our age's great
master of such, uses that diagram, or rather the principle, in many guises.

On Jan 31, 2008 9:09 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Something filtered out the "devil's fork" illustration in my last post,
> without what no sense makes it.
>
>  Go here for visual aid: http://www.planetperplex.com/en/item21
>
>  JL
>

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Mark Mandel

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