naming a language

[A. Katz]

Stern objectivity? Objectivity, stern or otherwise, is a fleeting ideal!

    --Aya Katz


On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Paul Hopper wrote:

> Bloomfield dubbed the kinds of judgmental observations that Funknetters have been making about the alleged "mispronunciation" of names "tertiary responses", and reckoned them as part of the linguist's accounting of facts about a language. This being so, surely our attitude toward our discussion should be one of stern objectivity rather than amusement?
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>> I am amused by the general prescriptive feeling that has been evident in
>> this discussion from the use of phrases like 'irritating errors'. It's
>> language change and language use, people! Aren't functional linguists
>> supposed to like this sort of thing? Claire
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>> ------------- Claire Bowern Department of Linguistics Yale University
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> Prof. Dr. Paul J. Hopper
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> Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities
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