The profusion of images, words, sounds and interfaces in "Talk to Me" aptly reflects the paradox of modern technology in everyday life: it's a boon and a bane at the same time.
Rough-hewn and direct in the writing of the church fathers, it went on a borrowing spree from Greek and Arabic during the Middle Ages, as scholastic philosophers generated a profusion of new words.
One confusing result for outsiders is a profusion of nearly matching words, rendered in either Castilian Spanish or Catalonian.
While Seuss's first Beginner Books introduce kids to reading by using a controlled vocabulary, his full-size books like "If I Ran the Circus" and "Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book" initiated younger children into the pleasures of language with a profusion of made-up words.
And after the profusion of my own words, after I'd said close to a billion and beyond, my own voice started to grow weak.
But with these shifts, his national support weakened dramatically, for, Frady writes, he was addressing "a force field of interests far more monolithic but also far more elusive to confront than a Bull Connor or George Wallace's troopers on the Selma Bridge -- a profusion of resistance in which, in the words of an old gospel song, You can't find the one to blame / It's too smart to have a name".
The second authorizes the use of dedicated tax revenue for a program to reduce diesel-engine emissions -- a fairly simple proposition despite the profusion of numbers in the single 173-word sentence (ending in a question mark) on the ballot.
Stenciled on his window, almost overlooked for the profusion of suits, homburgs, and walking sticks, were the words "For the Man Who Knows".
Since then, "Atlanta" has used the N-word unself-consciously, in a profusion of ways.
