@jws Really. Now that's what I call useful.
// @matigo @c
@indigo It is indeed. The other one I find interesting is that people who grew up speaking English barely think about which preposition is right but immediately know when someone uses the wrong preposition.
@c That's very clever, and I could have thought of that, if I weren't basically a lazy sod. Thank you.
In truth, though, if I were to see whether every one of the dead links in my old posts lives on in archive.org, I would be even slower restoring the old posts.
Perfect job for Mechanical Turk, I suppose.
// @matigo
@matigo I thought the reverse. But we're getting puerile here.
// @tomas @gtwilson
@matigo Obviously I mostly agree with you. Although the buried alive thing does haunt me.
@tomas I think societal idiocy when it comes to the human body knows no bounds.
// @matigo @gtwilson
@tomas In all fairness to boobies, couldn't they be dual-purpose?
// @matigo @gtwilson
@indigo It's been around a fair bit, with a very interesting commentary on Language Log. They pointed out that it isn't quite as hard and fast as it seems. But still, very interesting.