CriticalSock
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I just read this sentence in R Dawkins "The Greatest Show on Earth":
"A wave of contraction spread sideways from the cell that was provoked, and the ball of cells spontaneously invaginated."
Brilliant! I laughed out loud, and not just because of a childish glee at the word invaginated! I think it's fantastic that we have a language that can come up with a sentence like that.
Then there's the caption to the accompanying diagram:
Oster's model blastula gastrulating
I think I can die happy now, having read such a coherent yet silly collection of words!
(I'm just referring to the sounds of the words as silly, not the meaning. Go on... say it out loud!)
"A wave of contraction spread sideways from the cell that was provoked, and the ball of cells spontaneously invaginated."
Brilliant! I laughed out loud, and not just because of a childish glee at the word invaginated! I think it's fantastic that we have a language that can come up with a sentence like that.
Then there's the caption to the accompanying diagram:
Oster's model blastula gastrulating
I think I can die happy now, having read such a coherent yet silly collection of words!
(I'm just referring to the sounds of the words as silly, not the meaning. Go on... say it out loud!)