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brians@wsu.edu - 30 Oct 2007 18:31 GMT

It's hard to speak fluently on the radio; even professionals sometimes
stumble. A reporter on NPR's "Morning Edition" this morning said "The
Justice Department is trying to put some steps into place to try to
patch all these holes together. . . ."

To make one big hole? To make the quilt of nothingness?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15766613

Paul Brians

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R H Draney - 30 Oct 2007 19:55 GMT

brians@wsu.edu filted:

>It's hard to speak fluently on the radio; even professionals sometimes
>stumble. A reporter on NPR's "Morning Edition" this morning said "The
>Justice Department is trying to put some steps into place to try to
>patch all these holes together. . . ."
>
>To make one big hole? To make the quilt of nothingness?

"Progress consists of poking holes in previously-poked holes."
- Jan Cox, philosopher, one of the few times I actually found him profound

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Lars Eighner - 30 Oct 2007 19:58 GMT

In our last episode,
<1193765495.098359.323920@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
the lovely and talented brians@wsu.edu
broadcast on alt.usage.english:

> It's hard to speak fluently on the radio; even professionals sometimes
> stumble. A reporter on NPR's "Morning Edition" this morning said "The
> Justice Department is trying to put some steps into place to try to
> patch all these holes together. . . ."

> To make one big hole? To make the quilt of nothingness?

To fill the Albert Hall.

> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15766613

> Paul Brians

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John Holmes - 31 Oct 2007 10:05 GMT

> It's hard to speak fluently on the radio; even professionals sometimes
> stumble. A reporter on NPR's "Morning Edition" this morning said "The
> Justice Department is trying to put some steps into place to try to
> patch all these holes together. . . ."
>
> To make one big hole? To make the quilt of nothingness?

Whats wrong with that?
To patch a hole is to put a patch over it. If you do that with several
holes at the same time, you are patching them together.

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Discussion Groups / English Usage / October 2007

Patching together holes