Million words?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> 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

Better link:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0102/p18s01-hfes.html

CSM links to this Economist piece by John Grimond from Nov. 19th:

http://www.economist.com/theworldin/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12494445&d=2009

Grimond is rightfully skeptical -- though in fact not skeptical
enough. We've been tracking this nonsense for quite a while -- search
for "Payack" in our archives, e.g.:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0807B&L=ADS-L&P=R2524


--Ben Zimmer

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