Metaphorically Speaking anchored their boat in the middle of a sea and said "Here we are going to build our farm" - although using other words, you understand (except for here). H o w do two families who once spoke the same language end up speaking such different languages? T h e answer is "one day at a time". People often wonder why Latin died out, but in fact it didn't. I f you had been in Rome every day since Julius Caesar's time until now, at no time would people have thought that they spoke a different language than the day before. Latin is still alive, we just call it Italian. But words change their meaning, usually little by little. King James II once described the then-new St.Paul's Cathedral in London as "amusing", "awful" and "artificial" by which he meant that it pleased him, was awe-inspiring and made with great artifice: in other words, he liked it. Many words get their new meanings by misuse. I suppose everyone has their favourite words where they cringe when they hear them misused. I have to cringe and laugh at the same time when I ' m in a plane
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Metaphorically speaking
Pemberton, Steven
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, Volume 27 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Oct 1, 1995
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