NASA is looking for a new slogan and Wired wants one of its readers to be the one who comes up with it. Vote for mine or come up with your own. My proposed slogan is “Earth is not room enough.”
Archive for 7 September 2007
New NASA Slogan
Posted: 7 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: nasa, nasa slogan, slogan, space, vote
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White Goods
Posted: 7 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: britain, language change, neologisms, quiz
Language Log has an interesting quiz for speakers of American English: choose the correct meaning of the term white goods. No web searches of any kind allowed before answering. Goods of any sort that are white in color — flour, paper towels, lilies, emulsion paint, toothpaste, ermine fur, milk, eggs, refined sugar, button mushrooms, etc. [...]
