Linguistic Trivia

Everett, Daniel DEVERETT at bentley.edu
Thu Oct 2 21:08:38 UTC 2014


This I did not know! Very cool, Matthew. The movie this song is taken from is Be My Guest, so that must be the title song of the movie. 

Dan

On Oct 2, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Matthew Dryer <dryer at buffalo.edu> wrote:

> Dan,
> 
> Jerry Lee Lewis recorded another song "Be My Guest" which was co-written by Geoff Pullum and Shel Talmy, who is Len Talmy's brother.
> 
> Double linguistic relevance.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> On 10/2/14 4:22 PM, Everett, Daniel wrote:
>> The link below is to a 1964 song performed by Jerry Lee Lewis and his band. It is on a couple of Lewis’s albums. Its linguistic relevance? It was composed by a young Geoffrey Pullum.
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayURbn0tuM
>> 
>> Dan Everett
>> 
> 



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