When I walk into work in the morning, I see a sign near a construction site (they’re working on the patio):
Sounds to me like conservative framing in action: Progress is now a thing to be pardoned. An annoyance. An obstacle standing in the way of…progress? **IMAGE SCHEMA PARSING ERROR** (head explodes)
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haha!
i learned about code-switching yesterday while learning about the demographic of welsh speakers on wikipedia!
hope things are fabbbuloussss over yonder in the CI.
(is that what people call it?
i saw a shirt that said that today)
Comment by al — July 12, 2006 @ 12:15 pm