2018-10-12 shieldfoss

More linguistics tomfoolery

shieldfoss:

“hard and fast rule” then: Iron law that cannot be avoided.

“Hard and fast rule” now: “One of the few hard and fast rules of comedy is that puppets are always funny.”

So… No change in the meaning, then?

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