Tuesday, December 9, 2008

English - a crazy language

Another observation of a phrase, similar to one I have had in a previous post ...

I heard an advertisement yesterday claiming that the product was "second to none". Wow. Seems to me that there is not much that could be worse than coming in second place to none. If there are no others and you come in second, that doesn't say much about you. It's kind of like losing an election to a dead guy.

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