ah/ awe goes to bed

[Baker, John]

        Actually, I would like to express my admiration for the
restrained manner in which listmembers took a friendly and pedagogical
approach to a persistent poster who has very different goals.

        Tom Z, if you are still here:  There are people in the world who
want to reform English pronunciation.  For example, that was one of the
goals of H.W. Fowler in writing A Dictionary of Modern English Usage.
You will not find them here.


John Baker


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In a message dated 10/3/06 10:48:41 PM, zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU writes:


> mindful of benjamin barrett's wry posting on "troll", i forbear to do
> a full response (from linguistics 101)
>

Yes, we are all such PROFESSORS that we rushed--perhaps somewhat
trollishly ourselves from time to time--to TEACH that naive, stubborn
fellow the fundamental truths (though he was cleary unwilling to hear
them; as the right-wing talking heads say, "He has an agenda").

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