Look kool!; look kool!; look kool!; look kool!; look kool!; look kool!; look kool!; look kool!; look kool!; look kool!; look kool!; look kool!; look kool!; look kool!
Short version with Canadian content
Adventures in metalanguage
It is not cool to misspell "cool" as "kool." It is even less cool to say: 'It is not cool to misspell "cool" as "kool." ' And it is still less cool to say: " ' ".... [halt]
And another thing: It is easy to misspell "misspell." And somebody who habitually misspells "misspell" as "mispell" is likely to write: 'It is easy to mispell "mispell" as "misspell."' If "misspell" were really spelled "mispell," the preceding sentence should be revised to say: "And somebody who habitually mispells "mispell" as "misspell" is likely to write: 'It is easy to misspell "misspell" as "mispell." ' " And if "preceding" were really spelled "preceeding," the preceding sentence should be revised too. Then, there is a lot of confusion surrounding "to," "too," and "two." Of course, if "too" were the preposition and "to" were the adverb, and if "two" really meant "three," it would be necessary too go back too the next-too-last sentence and make the last two words "be revised to" instead of "be revised too." Furthermore, if "revised".... [halt] . If you find a single or double quote out of place or missing in the above, please contact me and just mention the code word "Quine." I will fix the problem. Many thanks.
More palindromes
I call this one my "Genesis" palindrome:
God, as Adam saw, was mad as a dog.
And this one my "STD" palindrome:
Stan gave Eva gnats.
Newsletterspeak
The terms "buy" and "hold" often appear in stock-market newsletters. Originally, the term "sell" also was included, although it hardly ever appears nowadays. I like to call this usage "Newsletterspeak." Translated into plain English, these terms mean the following:
Incidentally, take away the seven letters "sletter" (or the seven letters "rettels" if you read backwards) from "Newsletterspeak" and you have left "Newspeak," which appropriately brings to mind George Orwell's novel "1984."