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His Corpus, Concordance, Collocation formulated the "idiom principle". [4] Though he had written many books, at his valedictory lecture in 2000 he stated that none of his many published articles passed successfully through peer-review, and that even an article he had been invited to write for a journal was peer-reviewed by mistake and rejected.
The Mad Libs books were conceived around the same time as Strachey wrote the love letter generator. [3] It was also preceded by John Clark's Latin Verse Machine (1830-1843), the first automated text generator.
The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces "close imitations" of postmodernist writing. It was written in 1996 by Andrew C. Bulhak of Monash University using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars. [1] A free version is also hosted online.
Love is blind—an idiom meaning a person who is in love can see no faults or imperfections in the person whom they love [4] In linguistics, idioms are usually presumed to be figures of speech contradicting the principle of compositionality. That compositionality is the key notion for the analysis of idioms emphasized in most accounts of idioms.
The Libersign, a political emblem of the U.S. Libertarian Party during the 1970s, features an arrow diagonally crossing the letters "TANSTAAFL". "No such thing as a free lunch" (also written as "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" and sometimes called Crane's law [1]) is a popular adage communicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing.
A US Navy chaplain reads an excerpt of Niemöller's poem during a Holocaust Days of Remembrance observance service in Pearl Harbor; 27 April 2009. At the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the quotation is on display, and the museum website has a discussion of the history of the quotation.
Ai told Farnsworth that she got the idea from watching a The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carson had told a joke that inspired Ai to write the poem. After she decided to write the poem, she found a biography on Hoffa and studied it before writing the piece. Ai said that she often reads biographies before writing a poem on an historical ...
The first lines of the Iliad Great Seal Script character for poetry, ancient China. Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.