Chat-Speak Invades the Classroom

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:32:08PM -0400, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> P.S.  Speaking of chat-speak in the classroom--Jesse, were you
> accurately quoted as claiming that
> "Language is spread not because not anyone dictates any one thing to
> happen"?  I'm still sorting that one out.

While I didn't make a recording of our interview, I am rather
confident that, while I might have said "um" a few times, I
did not say "Language is spread not because not anyone dicates...."

I hope that most of the Times readers will consider it a typo
on the part of the Times.

JTS