- By Jim Evans
- Entertainment
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SMART TALK by Dr. Dot Pilcrow
IN SIDE CAR: Compounding words correctly makes a big difference. After work at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, my colleague Dr. Saber S. Poder couldn't wait to show me what she had bought for her car. A pair of deer whistles. Well, of course, they weren't called deer whistles. Oh, no. Animal Saver System, if you please.
I enjoyed that, but Dot directed me to a line father down on the package: "Animals in side car are not affected."
We laughed for days as we advanced new theories as to possible meanings.
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