On 2018-08-11, Michelle Konzack <linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net> wrote: > Am DATE hackte Brad Rogers in die Tasten: >> The wheel has been around for well over two thousand years. Perhaps >> we >> should get rid of that, too. > > Oh yeah, -- let's hoover!
That's a vacuum cleaner. Of course, those new-fangled digital Dysons, when set to blow, can probably blast you off to Io. BTW I take issue with the two thousand year figure for the invention of the wheel. I'm reading: "4500–3300 BCE: Copper Age, invention of the potter's wheel; earliest wooden wheels (disks with a hole for the axle); earliest wheeled vehicles, domestication of the horse" over at Wikipedia. He did say "well over," people will point out, but there's the unwritten rule that the quantity attributed to a "well over" cannot be superior to the original, base quantity the expression would have us augment by some unspecified amount. IOW, if I say, "It took me well over a month," that cannot rightly mean it took me two and half months. Maybe it would mean five weeks or something. To tell the truth I don't know what the hell it would mean. But that's hover and well over five thousand. Out. > Time to get cars without wheels. > -- "She was a blank wall, fresh painted." Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
