“as cleverer than people as people are than plants”

From The Economist of July 27th. Yes, it’s grammatical, but it’s fiercely hard to parse — you might feel the need to get out pencil and paper to graph the thing — and it’s also a big show-stopper flourish: stop reading the news to admire how clever we are! In this case, the magazine has … Continue reading “as cleverer than people as people are than plants”