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Re: Apple Computer changes its name

In <g4adnUF_sNYriTLYnZ2dnUVZ_rHinZ2d@comcast.com> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> In article <4u2dnb6e8pdi6jDYnZ2dnUVZ_sqdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
>> Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Paul Schlyter wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>After all, it's the music, not the perfection of
>>>>the audio reproduction, which should matter.
>>>
>>>This reminds me of a moment of epiphany regarding audio
>>>reproduction:
>>>
>>>The voice on the record said:  "Just relax and listen.  If
>>>there are scratches on the record, don't let them bother you--
>>>just imagine that you are listening in a room with a fireplace
>>>that pops and hisses--and relax and listen."
>>>
>>>...and I was immediately enlightened!
>> 
>> 
>> On some modern recordings, there are vinyl-like (or even 78 rpm 
>> record like) svratching sounds added intentionally, at some places in 
>> the recording.
> 
> That will be an interesting "artistic effect" until everyone who
> knows what it is is gone--like dust and scratches added to video.

I find puzzling the urge some documentary makers have for running the 
video of any historical recreation through the 'aged film' filter. Ah, 
so that's how film looked in 1850?

> (BTW, the above sentence is one of the few in which "is is" is
> not an error.  I'm getting sick of "The problem is is that...".)

New Scientist magazine regulary has interesting language examples on 
their Feedback page. For example this week:

READER Stan Courtney tell us that while browsing through Scientific 
American he came across this in an article about autism: "For 
neuroscientists, this finding... represents a dramatic change in the way 
we understand the way we understand."

Courtney says he cannot remember seeing any other sentence like this, in 
which a repeated phrase actually makes sense. Has anyone else?

<http://www.newscientist.com/backpage.ns?id=mg19325872.400>

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