<div dir="ltr"><div>Hey, I know! Let's put linguists in charge of nuclear policy, and evict the nuclear physicists and all that crowd. That oughta work!<br><br></div>Hal Schiffman<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:37 PM, jayrkirk42 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jayrkirk42@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jayrkirk42@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div>I sincerely hope that this is an April Fool's joke?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G Touch</div></div>
<div><div class="h5"> <br>"Baron, Dennis E" <<a href="mailto:debaron@illinois.edu" target="_blank">debaron@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">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 </span><a href="http://www.pure-english.com/society-pure-english-early-20th-century-england" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">Society
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>
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