‘On Language’ 8/2: Too much ‘meta’?
`Meta’-morphosis: It’s everywhere
‘On Language‘
Chicago Tribune
August 2, 2006
By Nathan Bierma
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Too much meta. That’s what Sam McManis wrote earlier this year in the Sacramento Bee, talking about the just-released movie “Tristram Shandy: A #### and Bull Story.” The movie is “a movie about making a movie of an 18th Century comic novel that was about the conventions of novel writing,” McManis explained.
“How very meta it all is,” he added.
That’s right: “meta.” The prefix has now taken its place as a separate word in the English language.
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