TIME KEEPS ON SLIPPING, SLIPPING, SLIPPING, INTO THE FUTURE
My friend Chuck wrote a fascinating post yesterday about time and history and the movement of man through the ages, and he broke down what exactly AGES means. And I felt kind of ashamed, not because I didn’t know what the words meant, but because I’ve never really thought about them, in-depth. Me! Who loves language and linguistics and can spend hours delving into the fine print of dictionaries. I had never really thought about the fact that these words AREN’T actually interchangeable, although I’m certainly not alone in using them as if they were. Eons are subdivided into, in...
