Fw: [ADS-L] Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"

ronbutters at AOL.COM ronbutters at AOL.COM
Sun Feb 22 15:40:24 UTC 2009


Thanks for this. G is right. I will set my e-mail filter to send all further postin's from TZ directly into my trash bin.
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From: Cohen, Gerald Leonard
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Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
Sent: Feb 21, 2009 6:38 PM

What strikes me in the exchanges is not the edginess or occasional off-color language but the extraordinary patience with which most of the linguists have provided their expertise to Mr. Zurinskas in hundreds of e-mail replies over the past several years. I would have hoped to see some expression of gratitude to my colleagues for all that assistance, but that doesn't seem to have been forthcoming.  I must say it is a bit breathtaking to see someone with no linguistic training vigorously and repeatedly arguing against all the specialists on the list about one dialectal/phonetic/phonological point or another.

Anyway, I believe it is time to draw this thread to a close.  Mr. Zurinskas gets high marks for perserverance.  I wish him luck in his endeavors.  But it would really be best if the ads-l members no longer respond.

Gerald Cohen
Professor of German and Russian
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409

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Original message from American Dialect Society on behalf of Bill Palmer, Sat 2/21/2009 2:15 PM

Well, maybe these discussions are like hockey fights.  They are not what the
players came for, supposedly, but they tend to keep the game clean.

So I'm wondering why so many academics enjoy using obscene or scatalogical
terms in these "scholarly" postings.

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