"When we first learned language we became mortal. Keats was right to call the Nightingale immortal: things without language are immortal, cannot be transformed into anything else."
-Giles Goodland, "Notes for the Infinite Child"
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@RichardCapener3 I liked his creative work but also as a lexicographer at the OED I found he was a frequent contributor of quotation slips, some very entertaining, and clearly on the same typewriter
@nemoloris OED (as yet unrevised) takes it to 1811: 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum (at cited word) The traps scavey where we hang out, the officers know where we live.