What in the Sam Hill?! It's another newsletter from A Way with Words.
Oh, man, when we have fun on the air, we have it in spades, buckets, and buttloads. This past weekend we took a quick look at whether old-fashioned fairy tales are too violent for the modern child, the origin of "soap opera," something about "dog-fooding," and we put our finger on "philtrum."
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Would a server by any other name be as functional? At IT World, Josh Fruhlinger takes a look at the naming conventions used for networks and servers, like naming them all after African countries or Simpsons characters.
An interview with MIT professor Wayne O'Neil on second-language acquisition:
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The idea of "dog fooding" eating what you create
recalls the mad cow epidemic
where cattle contracted a brain disease
through eating ground remains of other cows that had the disease.