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

[Amy West]

Hmmm . . . because you can do Google searches through voice commands, 
maybe he's using it to indicate keying in a search vs. doing 
voice-to-text??? I dunno. <shrug>

---Amy West

On 5/15/26 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Thu, 14 May 2026 08:23:28 -0700
> From:    Nancy Friedman<wordworking at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: "physically" = "literally"?
>
>  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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