[lg policy] The great language change hoax

[Harold Schiffman]

Hey, I know!  Let's put linguists in charge of nuclear policy, and evict
the nuclear physicists and all that crowd.  That oughta work!

Hal Schiffman


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:37 PM, jayrkirk42 <jayrkirk42 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I sincerely hope that this is an April Fool's joke?
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G Touch
>
> "Baron, Dennis E" <debaron at illinois.edu> wrote:
> There's a new post on the Web of Language:
>
>  The great language change hoax
>
>  Deniers of global warming, the big bang, and evolution have a new
> target: language change. Arguing that language change is just a theory, not
> a fact, they’re launching efforts to remove it from the school curriculum.
> To support their efforts, they’re citing a new report, “The Myth of
> Language Change,” presented last month at the annual conference of the Society
> for Pure English<http://www.pure-english.com/society-pure-english-early-20th-century-england> in
> Toronto.
>
>  Read the complete post at the Web of Language:  http://bit.ly/weblan
>
>
>
>
>   Dennis Baron
> Professor of English and Linguistics
> Department of English
> University of Illinois
> 608 S. Wright St.
> Urbana, IL 61801
>
>  office: 217-305-0067
> fax: 217-333-4321
>
>  http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron <http://illinois.edu/goto/debaron>
>
>  read the Web of Language:
> http://www.illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage<http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> This message came to you by way of the lgpolicy-list mailing list
> lgpolicy-list at groups.sas.upenn.edu
> To manage your subscription unsubscribe, or arrange digest format:
> https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list
>
>


-- 
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

-------------------------------------------------
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lgpolicy-list/attachments/20130401/afef1164/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
This message came to you by way of the lgpolicy-list mailing list
lgpolicy-list at groups.sas.upenn.edu
To manage your subscription unsubscribe, or arrange digest format: https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list