Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

25 May 2002, 8:55 a.m.

You know what I love about Leonard? Among other…

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2002 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

You know what I love about Leonard? Among other things, he writes sentences that I'm pretty sure have never been written or said before. McWhorter used "Admit it, my friends -- the woman hasn't even seen the talking dog!" in Power of Babel. If he hadn't needed cross-linguistic comprehensibility, I could imagine him using "Axis of Pasta update: consensus is that cheese is the missing third ingredient, though this has yet to be verified in field tests."