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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
ambition, pretention
  1. The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual.
  2. The action of aspirating.
  3. phonetics A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.




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