finite--more refined measurement

[Jonathan Lighter]

>  Unless you train yourself to think, "Oh, it's only language-change in
progress," you're going to find yourself in tears.

Yeah, but that's the difference between a real scientist and a regular
crummy human.

JL

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
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> > No matter how you slice it, "finite" makes no sense to me in this
> context.
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> Unless you train yourself to think, "Oh, it's only language-change in
> progress," you're going to find yourself in tears.
>
> Millions of oafs heard that misuse of "finite" and it's probably going
> to become as ubiquitous as "buh-tocks," a pronunciation that I've now
> heard used even by physicians.
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