Time Flies Like an Arrow, Fruit Flies Like a Banana

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FWIW:
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11 January 1967, <i>The Capital</i> (Annapolis, MD), "Lingual  Translation
Foiled Computers" by Wilbourn McNutt, pg. 21, col. 4:
SOME of the complexities are reflected in this sentence: "Time flies like  an
arrow," in which "flies" is a verb and "like" is a preposition. But in
another sentence: "Fruit flies like rotten apples," the word "flies" becomes a
noun and "like" is a verb. Such differences would not bother you, but they
baffle a computer.

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