tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3320087.post3557651092042719252..comments2024-03-22T15:15:09.943-04:00Comments on Lionel Deimel’s Web Log: GooglingLionel Deimelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363018512775944659noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3320087.post-36613057435970224102013-04-05T07:38:45.509-04:002013-04-05T07:38:45.509-04:00I wonder if Huck's "google" has an i...I wonder if Huck's "google" has an indirect etymological relationship to that great English word, "glug." Which was, I believe, the sound Popeye made when downing a fresh can of spinach.<br /><br />One of the great things about English language is its fluidity. Read Chaucer, Shakespeare, Twain, Joyce--or Dorothy Parker, or Jack Kerouac or Don DeLillo: it's all play. Deconstruction and new construction. The French Academicians may wring their hands with worry over all those young Parisiennes who plan their recreation for "le weekend," but there is no equivalent body of worriers certainly on the American side of the pond. I remember Howard Hugo back in Berkeley telling his undergraduates: "Make it fresh. Make it new. Make it interesting." Googelicious . . . .<br />Bruce Robisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00193701138386039942noreply@blogger.com