[Ads-l] "physically" = "literally"?

[Jonathan Lighter]

It sounds to me as if they actually had to do it (with physical effort, ano
matter how minimal) rather than just think about it.

JL

On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 11:24 AM Nancy Friedman <
00001b7f50001087-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> From a May 14 New York Magazine article about NYU commencement speaker
> Jonathan Haidt, author of *The Anxious Mind* (50+ weeks on the NY Times
> best-seller list). The quote is from an anonymous marketing major:
>
> "He said of Haidt, 'All my friends and I had to like physically Google who
> the commencement speaker was because we didn’t know.'"
>
>
> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jonathan-haidt-nyu-commencement-speaker-campus-speech-debate.html
>
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