Jesse Sheidlower on PBS Newshour

[Beverly Flanigan]

Well, I'd question the "linguist" status of O'Conner--but Jesse was excellent.

At 12:28 PM 1/7/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>In all the excitement over the media coverage of WOTY, no one has seen fit
>to mention that Jesse Sheidlower was on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer last
>night (6 January). They did a feature on how email and electronic
>communications is changing the language. Jesse was one of two linguists
>interviewed. The other was Patricia O'Conner, who has written an email style
>guide.
>
>It was an excellent piece, one of the best examples of media coverage of a
>linguistic issue that I've seen. A RealAudio version of the story is
>available at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html.