8 September 2010

Clue: Sometimes I feel like one of these (23 across)

Texting is impoverishing our language – discuss? What do OMG, LOL and BTW do to enrich the English language? Reflecting on this recently I realized the Germans have a way of overcoming the problem. An article in The Economist talked about an Eierlegendewollmilchsau, an amazing creature roughly translated as an egg laying woolly milk sow … or a jack-of-all trades

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