name vote

[Michelle Maria Lazar]

I agree with Larry Horn concerning the ambiguous reading of GALAXY. In fact,
in my mind, the second interpretation (i.e. for XY people) was more
prominent than the first (i.e. as covering all).

Michelle Lazar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurence Horn [mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 11:31 PM
> To: GALA-L at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU
> Subject: Re: name vote
>
>
> At 11:12 AM -0400 9/8/99, Maike Engelhardt wrote:
> >I like GALAXY too...that covers it all
> >
> Well, it COULD be analyzed as covering it all.  It could also
> be read as
> 'Gender And Language Association (for) XY (folks)', as
> opposed to GALAXX
> (not to mention GALAXXY and other alloforms).
>
> Larry Horn
>
> >**************************************
> >Maike Engelhardt
> >GTA German/ Foreign Language Department
> >West Virginia University
> >Morgantown, WV
> >mengelha at wvu.edu
> >
> >
> >
> >At 08:46 PM 9/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >>I'd like to add a suggestion: GALAXY
> >>
> >>The GALA for, well, GALA, and the XY for two well-known chromosomes
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> >###
> >>Anna Livia (PhD)
> >>Visiting Assistant Professor, French Department,
> >>UC Berkeley, 4125 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
> >>
>