Who is Rosetta Stone?

[Wilson Gray]

You make an excellent point, Mark. Clearly, your incisive mind has
pierced to the heart of the matter. I wish that I had thought that up.

-Wilson

On 1/23/06, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> Larry sez:
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> I also say "Plymouth ROCK", so it's not just poor Rosetta I'm
> slighting.  I think it's that these are more like "Fifth AVenue" or
> "Raglan ROAD" than like "Forty-SECond Street", in that neither stones
> nor rocks are semantically empty or unmarked enough to warrant the
> stress retraction.
> <<<
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> Yeah, but it's "_the_ Rosetta Stone" (that's _highlighting_, not stress),
> not *"Rosetta Stone". It isn't a landmark or a location, and the article is
> a necessary (to me) part of its name, unlike your examples.
>
> m a m
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