Who is Eddy Peters?

[Dennis R. Preston]

>Oh come on Bethany; say it. "Wherever it travels, it sucks." Maybe
>some would have missed this delightful ambiguity, believing you to
>have meant something like "Wherever it travels, it cleans up
>[sic,sic,sic!].

dInIs





>Paul:
>>"borrow" and "loan" metaphors are too prissy and bureaucratic. To account
>>for the sheer volume of foreignisms that the language has accumulated, a
>>theft metaphor might be more apt.
>
>I have always thought of the English language as being more like a vacuum
>cleaner. Wherever it travels, it .... well, you finish the sentence.
>
>Bethany

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