TAN: Best sellers

[Vyv Evans]

Hi Mark,

Not sure what you mean by 'channelling' Margaret Thatcher.  Thatcher was an ideological politician and, for all her faults, never used the veto. She understood only too well what that would mean.  Cameron doesn't.  

Best wishes,

Vyv

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Line <mark at polymathix.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:54:49 
To: Vyv Evans<v.evans at bangor.ac.uk>
Cc: <funknet at mailman.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] TAN: Best sellers

Yes. Diego said "England" so I also said "England", but of course the Guardian bestsellers are for the UK, not just England. My apologies to you and others elsewhere in the UK.

On your other point, I'd say David Cameron was channelling Margaret Thatcher, except she's not dead yet.


-- Mark



On Dec 11, 2011, at 15:22 , Vyv Evans wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> "But that's England, after all, where intellectual pursuits, even avocational ones, are not stigmatized."
> 
> Unfortunately England (I think you mean The United Kingdom, btw) is not all intelligence and forgiveness.  We have just turned our back on the rest of Europe, and apparently isolated ourselves from the EU  (see today's Guardian:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/).
> 
> With saddest wishes,
> 
> Vyv
> Professor/Yr Athro Vyv Evans
> Professor of Linguistics/Athro mewn Ieithyddiaeth
> www.vyvevans.net
> 
> Head of School/Pennaeth yr Ysgol
> School of Linguistics & English Language/
> Ysgol Ieithyddiaeth a Iaith Saesneg
> Bangor University/Prifysgol Bangor
> www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics
> 
> Deputy Head of College (Research)/
> Dirprwy Bennaeth y Coleg (Ymchwil)
> College of Arts and Humanities/
> Coleg y Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau
> Bangor University/Prifysgol Bangor
> 
> General Editor of 'Language & Cognition'
> A Mouton de Gruyter journal
> www.languageandcognition.net
> 
> 
> Mark Line wrote:
>> 
>> Probably.
>> 
>> But that's England, after all, where intellectual pursuits, even avocational ones, are not stigmatized. The 10th best-selling book is _Quantum Universe_ according to that same list.
>> 
>> By comparison, this week's bestsellers in USA Today (a.k.a. The Purveyor of American Culture) are mostly youth pulp, as nearly as I can tell. I'm sure they're popular among most adult Americans since they're likely Flesch-tested to 6th grade or so. 
>> 
>> Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs is #5 -- something you can leave lying around on your coffee table while you're showing off your new iPhone 4S (and its dead battery).
>> 
>> Still, I guess I might want to hire Diego Marani's publicist.........
>> 
>> -- Mark
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 11, 2011, at 14:56 , Daniel Riaño wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>> According to The Guardian's This Week
>>> Bestsellers<http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/home.do>,
>>> Diego Marani's "New Finnish Grammar" is this week 3rd best selling book in
>>> England. This is something of a record, isn't it?
>>>     
>> 
>>   
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