Langauge

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/11/2014 07:47 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Mar 11, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> > At 3/11/2014 07:22 AM, Pablo Domínguez wrote:
> >> Due to a lapsus calami, I wrote the word
> >> "language" as "langauge". Then I wondered if
> >> this metathetical form would make any sense.
> >
> > A device for measuring the speed of your home computer network.
> >
>Or for assessing the length and impact of any
>Fritz Lang movies you watch (using M as the index of measurement).
>
>LH

Better -- the eye with which one examines Fritz
Lang movies.  ("Eye": a postmodernist term for
the set of views one starts with in critical analysis of films.)

Joel

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