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A place without gurus monarchs leaders cops tax collectors
jails matriarchs patriarchs and all the other galoots who in
cahoots have made the earth a pile of human bones under
the feet of wolves. - Jake the Barker

Thursday, February 03, 2005

English you say? What is that?

Today as I was walking to campus I passed a box thrown into the snow. Printed on the box was, "Humidificator." Is this an English word? Is it a Spanish word? A German word? Is it nonsense?

I just typed it into Google; it isn't in the OED. Apparently such a product is made. What happened to a "humidifier"? Was that word not German-techno enough for you? As in, "Then Uder said, "Yah, I'm going to go med-i-val on your a-ss with this humi-di-fi-ca-tor!"


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