I'm Not Hanging Noodles On Your Ears And Other Intriguing Idioms From Around The World (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
And though the following sentence might prevent further page turning, I’ll ask you to grant me some platitude. I’ll wrap things up, by tying together some loose ends. In these concluding remarks, I’ll speak up for idioms and their enduring popularity, and start to put idiom-ology onto a less infirm footing. Finally, I’ll summarize the evidence we’ve seen, of how our minds are not what we’d like to think, and in doing so serve notice on Aristotle, Descartes, and all else who now unquestioningly serve the “hegemony of reason” that their time is up. The scientifically correct position is that we are not built to be dominated by the rational. It’s time for us to wholeheartedly and whole-mindedly embrace those elements of our nature that provide needed counterbalance to reason (and its cold rationality). It’s time for all of us to Enlighten up! LANGUAGE ORIGIN-OLOGY The Jig Is Up We’ve encountered several theories of language origin-ology (“la-la,” “woo-woo,” “poo-poo,”
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