"mere mistakes"

[Laurence Horn]

from dInIs:
>
>Please spell and pronounce "asterisk" this way. Otherwise the great
>linguistics t-shirt joke is lost.
>
>Speak ungrammatically
>You have only your *
>
>Who remembers the origin of this jewel?
>
>dInIs
>
can't give the origin, but a relatively early cite for me was on the
blackboard of the graduate student lounge/library in the UCLA ling.
department circa 1967, in a slightly different context:

      LINGUISTS OF THE WORLD UNITE!  YOU HAVE ONLY YOUR *

(It went along with "Did you hear about the linguist who was sentenced to
death?")

Larry