On 2010-10-01, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:

> As S. I. Hayakawa said "The word is not the thing."
> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/S._I._Hayakawa

Yeah, apparently ol' Sammy was an expert on "the thing". Judging by
his antics, he payed a lot of attention to it.

nb