Million words?

[Grant Barrett]

> What saith the experts about this?  (Which I cheerfully admit to not
> having read.)
>> http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/encryptmail.pl?ID=D2F5F4E8A0D7E1ECEBE5F2&url=/2009/0102/p18s01-hfes.html
>> by Ruth Walker

I won't claim expert status, but in short, it's unredeemable rubbish.
Ruth Walker should know better. Payack's a fraud. When I'm asked about
it by reporters I usually say:

-- This is not news.
-- There are already more than a million words.
-- There have been for decades.

Here's what I've had to say about it before:

http://tinyurl.com/79t6o5

Here's Ben Zimmer's criticism of Payack's "million word" rubbish:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002809.html

Jesse Sheidlower calls Payack's claims a scam in this wire story:

http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20060420003402773

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

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