The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque: Street Lighting in 1600s London (publicdomainreview.org) 27 points by benbreen 11y ago ↗ HN
[–] dmgbrn 11y ago ↗ Ah, the seventeenth century. A fuckfest before the word existed. [–] Neil44 11y ago ↗ I wonder what words will exist tomorrow! [–] njharman 11y ago ↗ Doubleplusfuckfest [–] mhb 11y ago ↗ Well we won't need "figuratively" since the fluid language cohort now uses "literally" to mean both "literally" and its opposite.
[–] Neil44 11y ago ↗ I wonder what words will exist tomorrow! [–] njharman 11y ago ↗ Doubleplusfuckfest [–] mhb 11y ago ↗ Well we won't need "figuratively" since the fluid language cohort now uses "literally" to mean both "literally" and its opposite.
[–] mhb 11y ago ↗ Well we won't need "figuratively" since the fluid language cohort now uses "literally" to mean both "literally" and its opposite.
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