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  Thursday 5 July 2007
Linguistic Mayonnaise

Quote of the day, from a post on how Google Earth works:

For the more technically inclined, you may want to read these patents directly. Be warned: lawyers and technologists sometimes emulsify to form a sort of linguistic mayonnaise, a soul-deadening substance known as Patent English, or Painglish for short.

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