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The English language took all this linguistic inspiration from space, but it wasn’t an equal exchange, because what we gave back, the language we put onto space, is not really doing the best job at putting the sublime into words.
A lot of it just seems to be looking around the house and thinking, “Oh, this thing looks a bit like that thing in space, let’s give it the same name – good enough!”
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The Watergate Scandal’s linguistic legacy: the suffix ‘-gate’
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Little coconut, tortoise beetle, golden turtle, spoon insect, patch-sewer, umbrella insect, flowery big sister, celestial path insect, red mother, Ali's mother, coral beetle, good luck bug, ladyclock, child of the sun, little midwife, Saint Lucia's little piglet, God's little cow, god's little lamb, god's chicken, devil’s chicken, god's horse, Flying Mary…
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