Preparations can be understood as a musical analogue to a linguistic rule such that the left child implies a specific word class to come as the right child, and the sentence can only be considered grammatical once a word fulfilling the implication is encountered. In the musical case, ...
Language is quite acceptable when understood as a symbol for the act and thing. But the word “ashtray” is no substitute for an ashtray. If you do not believe this, try to put your ashes on the airwaves which have just carried the word “ashtray.” Called a “saucer” or an “elepha...
Here's the story. Outlook (and Word), for many years now, has included an autocorrect feature that converts:-)into. Originally, this happy little smiley face was in the Wingdings font, which replaced each of the useable codepoints between 32 and 255 with symbols. I'm sure you can ...