Bella and Yakov and Tillie's Panties: What I Learned in “Construction and Maintenance of Indexing Languages and Thesauri” (16 Apr 2005)

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Bella and Yakov and Tillie's Panties: What I Learned in “Construction and Maintenance of Indexing Languages and Thesauri” (16 Apr 2005)
In short, mnemonics and rote memory aren't the only way to learn. I will never shop at a thrift store again without thinking of it as the most dreadful way to display RTs. I will never swim in a pool again without thinking of the shallow health section in the Harvard Business Thesaurus. Most of all, I will never be appalled that some odorous locker room does not offend the regular users, for I have learned that indexing is like a locker room – if you're in it long enough you just can't smell yourself anymore.

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