<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks, that's a nice piece of linguistic trivia.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Have you also heard of the opera by Charles F. Hockett, "The Loves of Dona Rosita", and its rather special twist?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://humanswhoreadgrammars.tumblr.com/post/78298435952/the-great-linguist-charles-f-hockett-creator-of-the">http://humanswhoreadgrammars.tumblr.com/post/78298435952/the-great-linguist-charles-f-hockett-creator-of-the</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">/Hedvig Skirgård</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>____________________________________<br>Sharing is caring, if you stumble across something you think I might find interesting then send it my way. I do the same.<br><br>Please forgive me for any mistakes of orthography (especially Swedish and French diacritics), I try to answer as fast as possible and sometimes that results in less than optimal key board output.<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-02 22:22 GMT+02:00 Everett, Daniel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DEVERETT@bentley.edu" target="_blank">DEVERETT@bentley.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayURbn0tuM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayURbn0tuM</a><br>
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Dan Everett</blockquote></div><br></div>