I Can Eat Glass
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I Can Eat Glass
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I Can Eat Glass was a linguistic project documented on the early Web by then-Harvard student Ethan Mollick. The objective was to provide speakers with translations of the phrase "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me" from a wide variety of languages; the phrase was chosen because of its unorthodox nature. Mollick's original page disappeared in or about June 2004, but the phrase has continued as an absurdist example in linguistics. The project is housed on the current website for The Immediate Gr
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Linguistic project
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Eat_Glass
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2024-01-02T09:58:44Z
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