[Ads-l] fast food

[Joel Berson]

During Passover, I happened to drive by a restaurant near Coolidge Corner, Brookline (MA), an area with a high Jewish population.  On its sign, just below its name, were the words "Fine Mediterranean food fast."  I thought, how appropriate for the season.
Then I realized this was another example, like Wilson's for the hyphen, of the disappearance from the English language of punctuation marks.
Joel

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