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Have you wondered what colourless green ideas were doing* ? Admired Lear's and Carroll's nonsense? Didn't know why it was OK to say that Mel devoured pizza but not Mat devoured; and - on the contrary - why Mel can dine but Mat cannot dine pizza? Why walkmans and Mickey Mouses rather than Walkmen and Mickey Mice? Why pitter-patter and ping-pong but never patter-pitter and pong-ping? How a perfectly civil and positive letter of reference can, essentially, say 'don't hire the guy, he's useless'? Can we blame the genes for sloppy grammar? What happens when the brain is, literally, split in half?
