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In other words, it starts off "once upon a time," the figures are in crayon, etc. (Laughter) So we said, we'll get it reviewed.
I don't have words to explain exactly how I am feeling right now.
Scared of these students with their big brains and their big books and their big, unfamiliar words.
In other words, if democracy is to be rebuilt, is to become again vigorous and vibrant, it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.
They held that baby in front of their face, cajoling it, reprimanding it, educating it with words.
When he sings songs from our childhood, attempting words that not even I could remember, he reminds me of one thing: how little we know about the mind, and how wonderful the unknown must be.
We still clutch close these letters to our chest, to the words that speak louder than loud, when we turn pages into palettes to say the things that we have needed to say, the words that we have needed to write, to sisters and brothers and even to strangers, for far too long.
In other words, maybe the pleasures of the mind allow us to increase our happiness with mind-wandering.
In other words, mind-wandering very likely seems to be an actual cause, and not merely a consequence, of unhappiness.
And those bits are words.
But people think that my job is to let the good words make that difficult left-hand turn into the dictionary, and keep the bad words out.
And for another, deciding what words are good and what words are bad is actually not very easy.
So, it's not that we have good words and bad words.
So, if you have a ham butt problem, and you're thinking about the ham butt problem, the conclusion that it leads you to is inexorable and counterintuitive: paper is the enemy of words.
I think we should study all the words, because when you think about words, you can make beautiful expressions from very humble parts.
They think, "OK, if we think words are the tools that we use to build the expressions of our thoughts, how can you say that screwdrivers are better than hammers?
That's 500,000 more words.
And I'm not even talking about polysemy, which is the greedy habit some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves.
So, we have all these words, and we really need help!
See, I just gave you a lot of words and a lot of numbers, and this is more of a visual explanation.
If that was the map of all the words in American English, we don't know very much.
It can't be that hard to find some words!
If we can find comets without a telescope, shouldn't we be able to find words?
And the Internet is great for collecting words, because the Internet's full of collectors.
And this is a little-known technological fact about the Internet, but the Internet is actually made up of words and enthusiasm.
And words and enthusiasm actually happen to be the recipe for lexicography.
If we get a bigger pan, then we can put all the words in.
And the thing is, if we can put in all the words, no longer have that artificial distinction between good and bad, we can really describe the language like scientists.
We're entering this amazing period of flux in human evolution where we've evolved to speak in a way in which our words disappear, but we're in an environment where we're recording everything.
Now, I can look at all those words that used to, for millennia, disappear.
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