Myhill's message

[David Pesetsky]

Dear Funknet subscribers,

We want to express our surprise and disappointment that no subscribers to
this list have disassociated themselves from Myhill's optimistic
anticipation of our colleague's death.

We refer to the closing lines of his message sent three days ago:

> Arguing with Chomsky is a waste of time. I'm all for alternative
> approaches, but
> Chomskyism is only going to die with Chomsky--and the man is 71 years old.

The strongest rebuke that Myhill received was an invitation to visit
Stanford on his sabbatical.  Surely the readers of this list are not
functionalists first and human beings second!

                Sincerely,

                Sabine Iatridou
                Michael Kenstowicz
                David Pesetsky