Coach Paterno and the syntactic blind alley

[Laurence Horn]

On Nov 10, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> Orthosyntactic gap?
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>    VS-)

Sounds good, but "syntacticographic" would be more semantically transparent.  "Orthosyntactic" could refer to grammatical "correctness".

LH
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> On 11/10/2011 1:11 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> ...
>> Oh right, I'd forgotten that one, which only is a problem in
>> writing--"didn't useta" is as easy to say as "useta", but impossible
>> to spell. An orthographic gap! LH
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