The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant
picture.
Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent
consists of
infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is
made up of images,
or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long
ceased to remind us of
their poetic origin.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Globalization


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