Posted by Eugene Volokh:
A Logarithm?
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_12_30-2008_01_05.shtml#1199506459
From Andrew Sullivan's Atlantic.com column:
Consider this hypothetical. It�s November 2008. A young Pakistani
Muslim is watching television and sees that this man -- Barack
Hussein Obama -- is the new face of America. In one simple image,
America�s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a
logarithm.
Ratcheted up a logarithm? Sure, where figurative usages go, obviously
the speaker has to have some flexibility. Still, it seems like a
pretty odd usage to me. (And, yes, I know there's a substantive
argument being made there; I just don't have much to say about it.)
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