Jesse S. et al. v. Antonin S. et al. on fleeting expletives

[Arnold Zwicky]

On May 4, 2009, at 6:59 AM, Dave Wilton wrote:

>
> Freedman also pens this whopper, "As much as one sympathizes with
> language
> prescriptivism in general [...], censorship is necessarily a
> descriptivist
> endeavor."

yes, spectacularly confused.  i'm hoping to post on this for Language
Log (or on my blog), but new topics have been cropping up faster than
i can deal with them, so it might be a while.

arnold

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