[LINK] DNA Coil

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 08:07 +1000, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> in England. Shakespeare's contribution to the language was  
> significant, if only because he saw fit to use words in ways which  
> most other writers of his day would not have dreamt of.

Indeed - as Humpty Dumpty did :-)

One possibility of course is that he used its entirely common meaning
*also current in his day*, which was pretty much what we consider "coil"
to mean now, and used it as a fine, strong metaphor instead of a weakly,
direct statement with the wrong preposition... Ockham's Razor and all
that. But that wouldn't allow for nearly the same level of intellectual
ernestness...

Regards, K.

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