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

[Dan Goncharoff]

I was also thinking you can't just ask about someone named Haidt. Sounds
too much like "hate". You have to type it.
DanG


On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 1:05 PM Jonathan Lighter <
00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> 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:
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> > 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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