Mission Impossible

In which Rat is nitpicking again

Apart from clearly logically impossible (for example, painting imaginary things), everything is either already proven possible or unknown yet.

Well, stopping the abuse of language might turn out to be «mission impossible» after all. Don’t blame Tom Cruise and Hollywood, because ‘impossible’ was abused well before that – consider, for example, «be realistic, demand the impossible» of 1968.

CWCID:

• Filip Piekniewski / Xwitter started this nitpicking;

• James posted a link to George Orwell’s «Politics and the English Language» in comments yesterday.