Friday, February 03, 2006

 

While I'm At It: Birth of an Adverb?

"The prospect of reinventing oneself tabula rasa has always been one of America's foundation myths."

—Michiko Kakutani, also in today's Times.

3 Comments:

Blogger Orange said...

I've always preferred tabula-rasaly myself.

7:20 PM  
Blogger Thane said...

how about blank-slately

3:13 AM  
Anonymous Anna said...

i think it's beautiful what she's done. rather than the usual nominal form, she's using the (identically spelled) ablative. please pronounce with long final "a"s.

4:27 PM  

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