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If It Walks Like a Yahoo...

There has never been an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the actual world. That wariness is implicit in the way we describe words as labels.

By Geoffrey Nunberg

April 10, 2005

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